Tom Keer

Tom Keer is a Contributing Writer at Field & Stream. His first Outdoor Life piece appeared in 1997, and he landed in Field & Stream a few years later.

Highlights

• Over the decades he’s published 3,500 pieces across 100 titles. He’s been fortunate to win a bunch of writing awards from POMA, OWAA and NEOWA.

• He’s written one book,A Flyfisher’s Guide to the New England Coast.

• Currently, he’s the Shotgun Editor for_Guns_magazine; the shotshell editor for American-Waterfowler; the Upland Editor for_Strung_magazine; and an Editor-at-Large for_Tail_.

• He spent several years as the guest editor of_USA Today Hunt/Fish_and as the editor for_Skydance_. He’s been a Senior Editor for_Sporting Classics_, a Field Editor for_Fly Fisherman_, a Contributing Editor for_Fly Rod & Reel_, and the Destinations Editor for_Covey Rise_.

Education

Keer graduated from Boston College with a double major in English and German.

Experience

After college, Keer worked for a large Boston advertising and public relations agency. He got bored working on campaigns for frozen French fries, running shoes, and sterling-silver flatware, so he quit to work in the fishing and shooting industry. He worked for Orvis for a decade and a half, and his last position was running the national and international wholesale network, including box stores. In 2005, he founded his own marketing and public relations company called The Keer Group, which focuses on the fish/hunt markets. He gets up well before sunrise and writes every day.

F&S Lightning Round

Favorite Food: SteakFavorite Fishing Grounds: Targeting striped bass on the flatsFavorite Critter to Hunt: Running his setters in the grouse and woodcock woods

Notable Work

• Best of the Sporting South: Top Dog

  Garden & Gun

• The Double Barrel Chew

  Field Ethos

• Confessions of a Dyed in the Wool Woodcock Hunter

  Shotgun Life

• Wearing off the Brown

  Sporting Classics Daily

• Where Have All the Black Ducks Gone?

  Wildfowl