John Keene
From QueerBio.com
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1965 -
Occupation
Academic, Writer, Poet
Description
Novelist and poet. Professor, Department of English at Rutgers University-Newark, affiliated with the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies. Member of the Dark Room Writers Collective, a community of black writers founded in Boston in 1987. Notable books include 'Annotations' (1995) and 'Counter Narratives' (2016). Poetry collections include 'Seismosis' (2006). Recipient of many awards and fellowships—including a MacArthur Genius Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Whiting Foundation Prize for ficti
