Keith Negley

Biography

Keith Negley is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and the New Yorker. He holds a BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Negley has won medals from the Society of Illustrators and the 3x3 International Illustration Awards. His books include Tough Guys (Have Feelings Too) (Flying Eye, 2015) and The Boy and the Wild Blue Girl (Balzer + Bray, 2020). 

Keith Negley

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REPORTING / Spring 2024

Unnatural Selection

By Lois Parshley ,  Illustration by Keith Negley

The outsized grandeur of the boreal can still appear so wild, so endless, it’s hard for newcomers to recognize the loss. Each generation’s perception of normal is molded by the environment they encounter, masking the gradual fade, a...

Illustration by Keith Negley
FICTION / Fall 2020

How He Changed over Time

By Lydia Davis ,  Illustration by Keith Negley

He used to play the violin, but then, as his fingers thickened and lost some of their agility, he became frustrated by trying to play, and then bored by it. 
FICTION / Fall 2020

Bloody Knuckles

By David Braga ,  Illustration by Keith Negley

The waiting room was small, not much more than a large cubicle with a coffee machine, a couple of televisions, and maybe twenty other parents, all of us equally nervous and trying not to show it. A better artist than me might’ve been able...
FICTION / Fall 2020

Transit

By Khaddafina Mbabazi ,  Illustration by Keith Negley

At Heathrow, three hours before her flight to Boston, Thandi was in one of the shower rooms below the Galleries lounge in Terminal 5. A previous tenant—someone who, at some point in the day, had been in there before her, before every inch...