Keith Andrew Topping (born 26 October 1963 in Walker, Tyneside) is an author, journalist and broadcaster.

Topping's family have Irish, Scottish, East Anglian (Snape, Suffolk, Great Yarmouth) and Cumbrian (Crosby-on-Eden) roots as well as North Eastern[citation needed].

[citation needed] He worked for the Civil Service as an Administrative Officer in the, then, Department of Employment between 1983 and 2001 when he left to pursue a full-time freelance writing career.

[citation needed] Topping's first published fiction was the BBC Books "Past Doctor Adventure" The Devil Goblins from Neptune in 1997.

[citation needed] Topping also wrote the Telos Doctor Who novella Ghost Ship which was published in 2002[6] and reissued as a paperback in 2003.