Scribner has worked as a carpenter, a merchant marine, and a Boston cabbie. He's lived in Japan, Turkey, and France. Some highlights of his travel include Vietnam, India, Burma, Thailand, South Korea, Nepal, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Denmark, Mexico, and many roadtrips through the US and Canada. (Photo credit: Shannon Bedford)

Keith Scribner’s third novel The Oregon Experiment was released by Alfred A. Knopf (Random House) in June 2011. His two previous novels, published by Riverhead Books (Penguin), are The GoodLife and Miracle Girl. The GoodLife appears in translation, was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Daily Beast, TriQuarterly, American Short Fiction, Quarterly West, The North Atlantic Review, the San Jose Mercury News, the Baltimore Sun, and the anthologies Flash Fiction Forward (W.W. Norton) and Sudden Stories: The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction. He received both Pushcart and O’Henry Prize Honorable Mentions for his short story, “Paradise in a Cup” (TriQuarterly, #121).

Scribner received his BA from Vassar College and MFA from the University of Montana. He was awarded Wallace Stegner and John L’Heureux Fellowships in Fiction at Stanford University, where he went on to teach in the Creative Writing Program as a Jones Lecturer. He currently lives in Oregon with his wife, the poet Jennifer Richter, and their children. He teaches in Oregon State University’s MFA program and is a fellow at OSU’s Center for the Humanities.