John Keene

Who is John Keene?

John R. Keene Jr. is a writer and translator. Formerly associate professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, United States, he now is associate professor of English and African American and African studies at Rutgers University-Newark. He has an A.B. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from New York University. He was a longtime member of the Dark Room Collective, an organization that from 1988 to 1998 celebrated and gave greater visibility to emerging and established writers of color, and also was a fellow of Cave Canem.

His first novel, Annotations, was published by New Directions in 1995. A new collection of poems entitled Seismosis was published by 1913 Press in 2006.