John Keene is a poet and novelist from St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his BA from Harvard University and his MFA from New York University. Keene has published many works, including his novel Annotations (1995), his poetry collection Seismosis (2006), and his novella Counternarratives (2015).
Keene has been honored with a Whiting Award and fellowship from Cave Canem, among others. Currently, he is an associate professor of English, African American Studies, and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
Information from the Poetry Foundation.