Keisha Bush is the author of No Heaven For Good Boys, a New York Times Editors' Choice and Paperback Row pick, and winner of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award. She is also the author of the Scholastic children’s book My Family Tree.
She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Moulin à Nef, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Lion’s Roar Magazine, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and CommonLit.
Keisha holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Bentley University, an MFA in creative writing from The New School, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.
She teaches writing at the Center for Fiction, and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.