In 2023, Keenan published Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings, a nonfiction blend of essay, history, and memoir, and he published the short story Luster. In January, Keenan served as a Lannan Visiting Writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts and in fall 2021 he served as a Rea Visiting Writer at the University of Virginia. He is coordinator of the Steinbeck Fellows Program at San Jose State University and is a California Visiting Editor and Contributing Scholar at the Oxford Center for African American Studies. In 2013, Keenan edited the seminal book Street Lit: Representing the Urban Landscape. His long articles and articles have appeared in numerous forums, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, TED-ED, Stranger's Guide, and Alta, while his short fiction has appeared in several anthologies of Californian literature. He is an associate professor at San Jose State University.
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