ERIN KEANE LIVES, WORKS AND WRITES IN LOUISVILLE, KY

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.

Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Salon, The Courier-Journal, LEO, Sou'wester, The Louisville Review, Redivider, PANK, The Lumberyard, Nimrod, Phoebe, Now & Then and Louisville Magazine.

Keane earned her MFA in creative writing at Spalding University. 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 and The Heartland Review and teaches in the MFA program at National University

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.