DAN
KEANE


I’m an American writer living in Aotearoa New Zealand. I write a newsletter called NZ American. It’s free! You can sign up here. If you’re here to participate in my PhD research, click here.


My reporting, fiction, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in North & SouthThe Washington Post, Harper’s, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, The Austin Chronicle, ArtForum, The Village Voice, 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 been a correspondent for the Associated Press correspondent in Bolivia and on the U.S.-Mexico border.

I write copy, edit manuscripts, and run great workshops. Happy to chat! You can find me on Substack, LinkedInBluesky, and Instagram or drop me a line at dan@american.nz.  


Recent Links & Etc.
__ Reviewed Waiting to Be Arrested at Night, a memoir by Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil (The Washington Post)
__Interviewed Dame Joy Cowley for Featherston Booktown
__Interviewed Selina Tusitala Marsh for the NZ Book Awards
__Hosted a workshop with Chris Tse, NZ Poet Laureate
__Started the WLS Evening Book Club
__Read a bunch of poems online during lockdown
__Played futbol with the President
__Spent a night in the shadow of the wall
__Reviewed Salter & Bolaño
__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
__How to Tell a Story / Part 2
__How to Make Blackout Poems
__Bolivia en camino / en letrero
__上海 White Noise
__‘What am I doing here alone with 3000 sheep?’