Keenan Norris

Keenan Norris is a novelist, essayist and scholar. His latest novel is The Confession of Copeland Cane, the winner of the 2022 Northern California Book Award. His essays have garnered the 2021-22 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award. His other books include the non-fiction work Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings and his debut novel Brother and the Dancer.

Keenan has been Lannan Visiting Writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts (2023) and Rea Visiting Writer at the University of Virginia (2021). Since 2022, he’s served as coordinator of the Steinbeck Fellows Program at San Jose State University, where he's Associate Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing.