DAN
KEANE
I’m an American writer living in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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ABOUT ME: My reporting, fiction, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in North & South, The 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, Bluesky, LinkedIn, 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?’
Contact
Drop me a line: dan@american.nz
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