Keenan Norris's novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award. He's also the editor of Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. His upcoming book is Born by the River: Richard Wright, Barack Obama and "Chi-Raq". Keenan serves as a guest editor for the Oxford African American Studies Center and he teaches at Goddard College and Evergreen Valley College. He holds an M.F.A. from Mills College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside.---------
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