Keith Lethbridge is a member of the Western Australian Bush Poets and Yarn Spinning Association and has travelled and worked throughout Australia in various occupations. He won the Perth's Poets Cup on Australia Day 1996 with his poem 'The Legend of Mother McQ.'

Lethbridge is the author of Call up a Storm : A Guide for Australian Square Dance Callers [1984] and has been the researcher, narrator and director of a documentary videorecording Nyawa Kulila Wangka = Look, Listen, Speak, that examined Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Community Scheme (BRACS), an indigenous media network using satellite re-transmission and local broadcasting equipment to record and promote Aboriginal culture.