Garret Keizer

Garret Keizer (born 1953) is an American author, poet and essayist.

Keizer was born in New Jersey and studied English at Montclair State University. He moved to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in 1979 when he was 26.

Keizer has written numerous critically acclaimed books. He is also a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. He has served as an Episcopal priest and a high school English teacher.

Honors and awards Keizer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. His first published book of poetry, The World Pushes Back, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2018. He was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.