Sezin (rhymes with Celine, not resin or season) Devi Koehler is a multiracial Sri Lankan/Lithuanian American pop-culture journalist and author of Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory, now available from Chicago Review Press (April 2025).
Her bylines include Entertainment Weekly, Black Girl Nerds, The Daily Beast, Teen Vogue, Huffington Post, Bitch Media both in print and online, and many more. Sezin joined the historic San Francisco Writers Grotto in 2025 and is now on its board of directors. She was also one of their Rooted & Written fellows for screenwriting in 2024. Her poetry has recently been featured in Tension Literary, Verse News, Syncopation Literary Journal, and The Dark Poets Club.
Sezin is currently working on a mushroom horror novel that’s Banshees of Inisherin meets The Last of Us and The Road meets Shaun of the Dead, as well as several poetry collections.
She’s also an experienced academic and medical editor who works with universities and organizations around the world. One of her major editorial projects was as commissioning editor for Enslow’s groundbreaking six-book Racial Literacy series.
After having spent the majority of her life abroad — Sri Lanka, Zambia, Pakistan, Thailand, India, Switzerland, France, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, and Germany — Sezin now calls enchanting Oakland home and writes from a house that looks uncannily like the one from Practical Magic, where she can see the San Francisco Bay from her window.
From Chicago Review Press on Much Ado About Keanu:
“Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies as of 2023) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture—nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping up. But Reeves is much more than box office receipts and internet memes, and Much Ado About Keanu provides the deep dive into his art, identity, and ethnicity that this oft-misunderstood cultural icon deserves.”
Much Ado About Keanu connects existing media studies around various themes in Reeves’s films—particularly Asian and Indigenous representation, gender studies, philosophy, technology, and sexuality studies—in a “critical Reeves theory” sure to engage not just fans but all of us who live in Keanu’s world.“
Upcoming Events
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Recent Appearances
- Interviewed by the East Bay Express after Sezin’s first performance with Punk Band Karaoke.
- KQED The Forum with host Mina Kim and special guests Sezin Devi Koehler, Angelica Jade Bastien, and Carly Severn.
- The Life of JEM Podcast: Writers on Writing with Sezin Devi Koehler.
- Ginosko Journal’s The Writing Life with Sezin Devi Koehler.
- A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast. Sezin chats with Brian about her theory that John Wick is trans, and how this connects to the world of The Matrix.
- The Occidental Magazine featured Oxy alum Sezin Devi Koehler’s Much Ado About Keanu summer reading list.
