Keegan Lester

Keegan Lester is an American writer living in New York City. Mary Ruefle selected his first collection of poetry this shouldn’t be beautiful but it was & it's all i had, so i drew it for the 2016 Slope Editions Book Prize. His second book, a lyric memoir, Perfect Dirt: And Other Things I’ve Gotten Wrong was published by WVU Press in 2021. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, The Academy of American Poets, Boston Review, The Journal, and The Rumpus among others. He was born in Huntington Beach, California.