John Keeble

John Robert Keeble (born November 24, 1944) is a Canadian-American author. Primarily a novelist, he is best known for his novels Yellowfish and Broken Ground (1987). He has also written short stories and nonfiction. In 2019, he won an O. Henry Award for his short story, "Synchronicity", which was published in Harper's Magazine.

Keeble is known for his literary treatment of political and ecological concerns, particularly in the western landscape of North America, as well as for his exploration of the intersections and tensions between the past and present of the American West and the people and animals who inhabit these spaces.

Biography

Keeble was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and raised in Saskatchewan until his parents moved the family to California. The son of a minister, the Washington State Governor's Award, The Appointment: The Tale of Adaline Carson (2019) Lynx House Press.

Short story collections Nocturnal America (2006) Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction "The Chasm," Best American Short Stories (1994) "Synchronicity," The O. Henry Prize Stories (2019)

Nonfiction and Essays Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound (1991;Expanded and Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition, 1999) "Trejo's Perfect Havoc," in Ruben Trejo: Beyond Boundaries / Aztlán y Más Allá, edited by Ben Mitchell, University of Washington Press (2010) (memoir)