DAN
KEANE
I’m an American writer in Aotearoa New Zealand. I write the newsletter american.nz. It’s free! Sign up here.
My work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Spinoff, North & South, The Washington Post, Harper’s, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, The Austin Chronicle, ArtForum, ChinaFile, and more. I’m a PhD candidate at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University, and I’ve taught writing at NYU Shanghai, NYU Abu Dhabi, and the University of Michigan. I’ve also been an Associated Press correspondent in Bolivia and on the U.S.-Mexico border. I live with my family in Greytown.
I also run great workshops, write copy, and consult on any writing project under the sun. Happy to chat! Drop me a line at dan@american.nz.
RECENT WRITING
__Weekly letters at american.nz
__Lights at Hut are Togs in a Sauna (The Spinoff)
__A Day Spent Here is a Day Not There
__On the South Island Seen From the North
__Laughing at Americans
__Should You Move to New Zealand?
__The Land of the Square Blue Tub
__Reviewed Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, a memoir by Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil (The Washington Post)
__Researched the post-election American diaspora for Otago’s Global Migrations Conference
VIDEO & PODCASTS
__A video postcard from the rugby, Greytown vs. Eketahuna
__’As Ethical as You Can Get, For Sex Work’
__Will We Die as Americans?
__As We Who Have Left Grow Old (for Anzac Day)
__Talking Kiwi in the Dark
__Barry Saunders writes a Letter to America
__How to Tell a Story / Part 2 (Wairarapa Library Service)
__How to Make Blackout Poems (Wairarapa Library Service)
__Interviewed Selina Tusitala Marsh for the NZ Book Awards
__Read a bunch of poems online during the 2021 lockdown
__’Upon the upland road / Ride easy, stranger’
WORKSHOPS
__How to Write a Newsletter, a Substack workshop (Mrs. Blackwell’s Village Bookshop)
__The Magic of Writing it Down, a journaling workshop Mrs. Blackwell’s Village Bookshop)
__Hosted a workshop with Chris Tse, NZ Poet Laureate
__Started the WLS Evening Book Club
__Interviewed Dame Joy Cowley for Featherston Booktown
ETC.
__Played futbol with President Evo Morales
__Spent a night in the shadow of the US-Mexico border wall
__Reviewed Salter & Bolaño (Fiction Writers Review
__My leg was in the Venice Biennale (Harper’s)
__My head was in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog for The Atlantic
__How to Get an A at NYU Shanghai
__Bolivia en camino / en letrero
__上海 White Noise
__‘What am I doing here alone with 3000 sheep?’
HOLLER
dan@american.nz anytime
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