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 LINKS
__Weekly letters at american.nz
__Lights at Hut are Togs in a Sauna (The Spinoff)
__Filmed a video postcard at the rugby
__Reading the letters as a podcast
__Should You Move to New Zealand?
__How to Write a Newsletter, a Substack workshop
__The Magic of Writing it Down, a journaling workshop
__Researched the post-election American diaspora for Otago’s Global Migrations Conference
__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 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
__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?’
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