John Keene’s most recent book is the 2022 National Book Award-winning collection Punks. He teaches and has served as department chair at Rutgers University-Newark.

John Keene is the author, co-author & translator of a handful of books, including the poetry collection Punks: New and Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021) and the fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2016). His awards include a 2018 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He teaches and serves as a department chair at Rutgers University-Newark.