John Keene is the author, co-author, co-editor, and translator of a handful of books, including the forthcoming Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill, co-edited with Robert F. Reid-Pharr (2025); Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas (2015), which received an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, and Punks: New & Selected Poems (2021), which received the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His translation of Brazilian author Hilda Hilst’s Letters from a Seducer which initially appeared in 2014 from Nightboat Books and A Bolha Editora, will be republished by Pushkin Press in 2025. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow and member of the African Poetry Book Fund editorial board, he is Distinguished Professor and Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing (Spring 2025) at Rutgers University-Newark.
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