John R. Keene Jr. is a writer, translator and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, Illinois

Illinois

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, United States

United States

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. He has a B.A. from Harvard and an M.F.A. from New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

. 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. 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.

External links

• http://www.english.northwestern.edu/people/keene.html