Jarret Keene is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he teaches American literature and the graphic novel. He has written books- travel guide, rock-band biography, poetry collection-and edited short-fiction anthologies such as Las Vegas Noir and Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas. For more than a decade, Keene was the contributing music editor at Vegas Seven magazine and a book critic for Tucson Weekly.