Jarret Keene

Jarret Keene is an Associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches the graphic novel. He serves as the series editor for Las Vegas Writes, a project sponsored by Nevada Humanities and published by Huntington Press. 

 

Keene is the author of the dystopian adventure novel Hammer of the Dogs (University of Nevada Press, 2023), as well as the Kid Crimson trilogy of Western novels (Wolfpack Publishing, 2024). His short story collection Gateways to Annihilation (Dark Wolf, 2025) collects twenty years of his groundbreaking fiction. 

 

Keene was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and most recently published a series of dark superhero novels starring the Breakers team and set in 1980s Las Vegas.