Keizer has written numerous critically acclaimed books.[3][4] He is also a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. He has served as an
Episcopal priest and a high school
English teacher.[5]
Honors and awards
Keizer was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.[6] His first published book of poetry, The World Pushes Back, won the
X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2018.[7] He was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.[1]
Authored books
No Place But Here: A Teacher's Vocation in a Rural Community, Viking, 1988
The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin, Jossey-Bass, 2002
A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of A Ministry, Viking, 1991
Keizer (2004). Help: The Original Human Dilemma. Harper One.
ISBN0060560622.
Keizer (2002). God of Beer. HarperCollins.
ISBN0060294574.
Privacy, Picador, 2012
Keizer, Garret (2010). The unwanted sound of everything we want: a book about noise (1. ed.). New York, NY: Public Affairs.
ISBN9781586485528.
Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014