He has published his fiction, poetry, essays, and translations in a wide array of journals, and his honors include a 2003 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Fiction and Poetry and a 2008 Fellowship for Distinguished First Poetry Collection from the inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum. Keene's other published work includes GRIND (ITI Press, 2016), an art- text collaboration with photographer Nicholas Muellner and the poetry chapbook Playland (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016).
He is the author of the novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995) the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), a collaboration with artist Christopher Stackhouse the short fiction collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015), which received the inaugural 2017 Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses (in the United Kingdom) as well as a 2016 American Book Award, a 2016 Lannan Literary Award for fiction, and a 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction, and Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave, 2021), which received the 2022 Thom Gunn Award in Gay Poetry and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award. In May 2017, he was awarded the Rutgers Faculty Scholar-Teacher Award, given across all Rutgers' campuses since 2000 to "honor tenured professors who make exceptional connections between their academic research and their teaching." He was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in October 2018.
He also teaches in the Rutgers-Newark MFA in Creative Writing Program. John Keene has chaired the Department of African American and African Studies since 2014-2015, and is Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
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