Trevor Ketner

Photo of Trevor Ketner seated in front of a bookshelf. They are wearing a long black top, round glasses, and red nail polish.
Cormac Fitzgerald

Trevor Ketner (they/them) is the author of The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) and [WHITE] (University of Georgia Press, 2021), selected as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Their chapbooks include Negative of a Photo of Fire (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019), White Combine: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg (The Atlas Review, 2019), and Major Arcana: Minneapolis (2018), winner of the Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. 

Ketner’s work has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Poetry Daily, Brooklyn Rail, New England Review, Ninth Letter, Changes, DIAGRAM, Foglifter, and elsewhere. Their essays and reviews can be found in The Kenyon Review, Boston Review, and Lambda Literary. A 2020 Lambda Literary Fellow, they have received support as a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow for The Poetry Project, and a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellow. Originally from New Mexico, they earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota and have lived in Manhattan, New York, with their husband since 2016.