John M. Keller is an American novelist, the author of five books of fiction, A Bald Man With No Hair, Know Your Baker, The Box and the Briefcase, Abracadabrantesque and Johnny Allan. He has taught writing at the City University of New York, the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico, the Universidad de Montevideo in Uruguay and St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai, India. "The White Stuff" is his second film as director, after the internationally acclaimed "Trop c'est trop" ("I've Had Enough!"), which was filmed in France and released in 2019.