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. He lives with his family in Sutton, Vermont.
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.
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
Privacy, Picador, 2012
Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014 The World Pushes Back, Texas Review Press, 2019
Selected articles Requiem for the Private Word - Harper's Magazine - August 2008 Specific suggestion: General strike - Harper's Magazine - October 2007 Left, Right and Wrong - Mother Jones - March/April 2005 Sound and Fury - Harper's Magazine - March 2001 Life Everlasting - Harper's Magazine - February 2005 Loaded - Harper's Magazine - December 2006
References
External links Garret Keizer’s official website