Christoph Keller (1963), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and writing in German and English, is the author of numerous prizewinning novels, plays and essays in German, including I'd Like My Country Flat (Ich hätte das Land gern flach, 1996), the best-selling memoir The Best Dancer (Der Beste Tänzer, 2003) about his life with the progressive neuromuscular disease Spinal Muscular Atrophy, A Worrisome State of Bliss (stories written in English, 2016) and The Ground Beneath the Feet (Der Boden unter den Füssen, 2019). In 2017, Alice James Books published We're On: A June Jordan Reader, coedited with Jan Heller Levi. Keller lived in New York for twenty years. In 2018 he heeded the president's advice and went back to where he came from. www.christophkeller.us
