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. Keenan is the editor of the groundbreaking Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. Keenan’s short work, both fiction and non-fiction has appeared in numerous forums, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Oakland Noir, Literature for Life, popmatters.com, Post-Soul Satire, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California's Inland Empire, Abernathy: A Magazine for Black Men, and BOOM: A Journal of California.