John R. Keene Jr., a member of the Dark Room Collective, is the author of Annotations (1995). He was a Breadloaf Fiction Fellow in 1998, and a Cave Canem Poetry Workshop Fellow in 1998 and 1999. His stories and prose poems have appeared in journals, feuilletons, and anthologies, including In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers, edited by Kevin Powell and Ras Baraka. (updated 1999)

Keene’s novel Annotations was reviewed in AGNI 44 by Alston Russell.