{"id":14,"date":"2025-12-23T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:25:34","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEli Klein is a Canadian author, biographer, and editor whose work is rooted in lived experience and cultural engagement. Over the course of his life, he has moved through creative and community-driven spaces as a poet, artist, music producer, and concert promoter. His background spans music, film, festivals, and radio, where storytelling and collaboration have always been central to his work.\n\n\nBefore turning fully to writing, Eli spent years working behind and in front of the scenes as a DJ, singer, booking agent, artist manager, video producer, director, and radio host. He has helped build stages, curate lineups, manage artists, and produce events, often within independent and grassroots cultural spaces. This wide-ranging creative background continues to influence his approach to narrative, structure, and voice.\n\nEli\u2019s writing is also informed by lived experience beyond the arts. As a traumatic brain injury survivor and peer support facilitator, he brings a deep understanding of recovery, resilience, and mutual care into his work. He has served as a youth advocate, mentor, board member, and queer community leader, roles that have strengthened his belief in storytelling as a tool for connection and change.\n\nThroughout his life, Eli has been both a participant and observer in moments of disruption and transformation. He has been a troublemaker and an ally, a protestor and an organizer, a student and a teacher. These perspectives allow him to write with honesty about identity, struggle, belonging, and growth, without abstraction or distance.\n\nNow working as an author, Eli Klein brings together decades of creative practice and community engagement to tell stories grounded in real lives and real stakes. His work reflects a commitment to clarity, empathy, and truth, shaped by experience rather than ideology.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Get in Touch with Eli<\/h3>\r\n \r\n timeforklein@gmail.com\r\n <\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n