Jarret Keene is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches the history of 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 most recent work is the short story collection Gateways to Annihilation (Dark Wolf, 2025). Keene was recently inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He is currently writing a series of dark superhero novels.