Keenan Norris holds an M.F.A. from Mills College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. A 2017 Marin Headlands Artist-in-Residence and a Yerba Buena Center for the Arts fellow, he teaches American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University and serves as a guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center. His short work, both fiction and non-fiction, has appeared in numerous forums.