Erin Keane is the author of two collections of poetry, Death-Defying Acts (WordFarm, 2010) and The Gravity Soundtrack, (WordFarm, 2007). Her chapbook, The One-Hit Wonders, is a small collection of poems about rock and roll.
She is the theater critic for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and also covers books, arts and pop culture for The C-J and Velocity. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Verse Wisconsin, The Louisville Review, Redivider, Minnetonka Review, The Lumberyard, MOTIF: Writing by Ear, Nimrod, Phoebe, New Southerner, Now & Then and Louisville Magazine.
Keane earned her MFA in creative writing at Spalding University. These days, she teaches Pop Music in American Literature at Bellarmine University, creative writing courses in National University's MFA program and high school creative writing workshops for the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.
A recipient of a fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, she serves on the editorial boards of Strange Horizons, New Southerner and The Heartland Review.
Erin lives upstairs in a creaky old Victorian house in Louisville, Ky., with her partner Drew and her gray cat, Harold Bloom. She'd be happy to show you around.