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John Keeble, Writer John Keeble (born November 24, 1944) is an American author whose work has come to be known for its political and ecological concerns, and the strength of its plots. Primarily a novelist, his one book of nonfiction, Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, is regarded as the definitive, contemporary account of that event. He has held a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship [1], won the 1992 Washington State Governor’s Award [2], has been represented in Best American Short Stories, and has won various prizes, including the 2006 Prairie Schooner Prize for fiction for Nocturnal America (a collection of short stories) [3], [4]. His most recent publication is Shadow of the Owls,a novel ....
Keeble was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and raised first in Saskatchewan and subsequently in California. He holds dual Canadian and U.S. citizenship.
He is a longtime resident (since l972) of Spokane County in Eastern Washington State where he and his wife, Claire, a musician, operate a small farm. They have three grown sons and three grandchildren. He attended the University of Redlands (Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, l966), and the University of Iowa (Master of Fine Arts, 1969). Additionally, he attended Brown University for one year(1971/72) to study electronic music composition and writing. He began adult life as a musician, but turned seriously to writing fiction while at the University of Iowa.
He has also worked as an educator, having taught at Grinnell College and Eastern Washington University, where he founded the Master of Fine Arts Program and the Northwest Center for Writers, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has been Distinguished Visiting Writer at Boise State University, and on three occasions held the Coal Royalty Trust Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama. And in 2002, he served at the University of Alabama as a Visiting Professor, and is a past-president of the Board of Directors for the Island Institute, a literary, community action, and philanthropic nonprofit organization based in Sitka, Alaska.
Themes and influences are....
Nocturnal America, 2006.
Short works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Northwest Review, The Idaho Review, Zyzzyva,Prairie Schooner, American Short Fiction, Rolling Stock, American Review, The Writer, The Village Voice, Outside, Technological Disaster at Valdez: Readings on a Contemporary Social Problem, Dreamers and Desperadoes: An Anthology of Contemporary Writers of the American West, Reflections from the Island’s Edge, Season of Dead Water, Home Ground, Best American Short Stories, and The Prairie Schooner Book Prize.
In 1993, he received a Northwest Regional Emmy Award Nomination for television documentary writing for To Write And Keep Kind, a film on the life of Raymond Carver which aired on PBS in the same year and won First Prize in the Documentary Category of the New York Film Festival and was a National Endowment of the Arts funded film. And in 1995, he was the literary consultant for a documentary on western writing, WestWord, aired on PBS in 1995.
Eastern Washington University Trustee’s Medal, for Teaching and Research.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Governor’s Award, State of Washington Commission for the Humanities and the Washington State Library.
Broken Ground cited as one of the best hundred books in Literary Oregon, OneHundred Books, 1900-2000.
Juneau Empire (search.juneauempire.com/fast-elements.php?type=standard...Juneau... ^PM Press - Derrick Jensen (www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=derrickjensen) ^University of Alabama (bama.ua.edu/~writing/main_pdf/printBVWSFall2002.pdf)
University of Washington Press (www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KEESHA.html)Time, Books, R. Z. Shepherd, “Easy Driver,” Feb. 4, 1980. Carolyn Kizer, “Fictional Space, John Keeble,” in Picking and Choosing, EWU Press, 1995. New York Times Book Review, Tom Nolan, “In Short,” March 6, 1988.
Oregon Focus, Doug Marx, “Out of the Woods,” March, 1988.
New York Times, Timothy Egan, “Accord Won’t End Finger-Pointing,” March 14, 1991.
The Shadows of Owls': storm clouds in the North PacificThe Seattle Times - Sep 9, 2013.
Who’s Who in the U.S., Writers, Editors, and Poets, 1988, December Press. Vermont Studio Center: www.vermontstudiocenter.org/visiting-artists-writers/SearchForm?Search=John+Keeble
Books otherwise reviewed in: Bloomsbury Review, Chicago Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Christian Century, Dallas Morning News, The Inlander, Kirkus Reviews, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, New Yorker, Newsweek, Northwest Review, Portland Oregonian, Publishers Weekly, Rolling Stock, San Francisco Chronicle, Science News, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Seattle Times Spokane Spokesman Review, Time, Toronto Star, Vancouver Sun, Washington Post, Whole Earth Review. '