Keith Scribner is an American novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, essayist, and educator. His third novel The Oregon Experiment was published by Alfred A. Knopf in June 2011. He is a professor of English at Oregon State University, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Scribner received his BA from Vassar College and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he later taught as a Jones Lecturer. He's received fellowships from Oregon State University's Center for the Humanities. His first novel, The GoodLife, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.