Keenan Norris' novel Brother and the Dancer is the winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award. He teaches English and African-American Literature and helps conduct the Affirm program at Evergreen Valley College. His work has appeared in the Santa Monica, Green Mountains and Evansville Reviews, Connotation Press, Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California's Inland Empire and BOOM: A Journal of California. He is also the editor of Scarecrow Press's upcoming collection of critical essays, Street Lit. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
