John Keene

Fiction Writer, Poet

Newark, NJ

New Jersey US

Email:

johnkeene@earthlink.net

Website:

jstheater.blogspot.com

Author's Bio

John Keene is a published poet, fiction writer, essayist, critic, and translator. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge and Boston, a graduate fellow of Cave Canem, and a board member of the African Poetry Book Series, he teaches in the English and African American and African Studies Departments, and the MFA program, at Rutgers University in Newark.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:

Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015)

Letters from a Seducer (H. Hilst-translation, Portuguese) (Nightboat Books, 2014)

Annotations (New Directions, 1995)

Poetry

Book:

Seismosis (Full book, w Christopher Stackhouse) (1913 Press, 2006)

Chapbooks:

Playland (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016)

Seismosis (chapbook, with C. Stackhouse) (1913 Press, 2006)

Prizes won:

1990 Artists Foundation Fellowship in Fiction (Massachusetts); 2003 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (New Jersey); 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Poetry and Fiction

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

African American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Born in:

St. Louis

Raised in:

St. Louis, MO

Missouri

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Last update: Sep 12, 2016