Garret Keizer
Garret Keizer 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, 1988The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin, Jossey-Bass, 2002A Dresser of Sycamore Trees: The Finding of A Ministry, Viking, 1991Privacy, Picador, 2012Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher, Henry Holt, 2014The World Pushes Back, Texas Review Press, 2019Selected articles
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