Garret Keizer (born 1953) is an American author, poet and essayist.

Keizer was born in New Jersey and studied English at Montclair State University.^[1] He moved to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom in 1979 when he was 26.^[1] He lives with his family in Sutton, Vermont.^[2]

Keizer has written numerous critically acclaimed books.^[3][4] He is also a regular contributor to Harper's Magazine. He has served as an Episcopal priest and a high school English teacher.^[5]

Honors and awards

Keizer was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.^[6] His first published book of poetry, The World Pushes Back, won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2018.^[7] He was inducted into the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.^[1]

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
• Keizer (2004). Help: The Original Human Dilemma. Harper One. ISBN 0060560622.
• Keizer (2002). God of Beer. HarperCollins. ISBN 0060294574.
• Privacy, Picador, 2012
• Keizer, Garret (2010). The unwanted sound of everything we want: a book about noise (1. ed.). New York, NY: Public Affairs. ISBN 9781586485528.
• 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^[8]