Deborah Keenan

Deborah Keenan
Born	1950 (age 74–75) Minneapolis
Occupation	Poet
Academic work
Institutions	Hamline University

Deborah Keenan (born 1950, in Minneapolis) is an American poet.

Life

She is an editor for Milkweed Editions. ^[1] She also teaches at Hamline University. ^[2] She lives with her husband, Stephen Seidel, who is the director of urban programs for Habitat for Humanity. They have four children.

Awards

• Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• The Loft McKnight Poet of Distinction award
• 2006-2007 Edelstein Keller Minnesota author of Distinction at the University of Minnesota ^[3]
• 1991 American Book Award

Works

• One Angel Then, Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981
• Household Wounds, New Rivers Press, 1981, ISBN   978-0-89823-022-2
• The Only Window That Counts, New Rivers Press, 1985, ISBN   978-0-89823-069-7
• How We Missed Belgium, Milkweed Editions, 1984, ISBN   978-0-915943-02-9 (written with Jim Moore)
• Happiness: poems. Coffee House Press. 1995. ISBN   978-1-56689-033-5.
• Good heart, Milkweek Editions, 2003, ISBN   9781571314154
• Kingdoms, Laurel Poetry Collective, 2006, ISBN   978-0-9787973-1-7
• Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, March, 2007, Milkweed Editions. ISBN   978-1-57131-426-0
• The Saint of Everything, Lynx House Press, 2023 ISBN   978-0899241890

Editor

• Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, editors Deborah Keenan, Roseann Lloyd, Milkweed Editions, 1990, ISBN   978-0-915943-45-6

Anthology

• Robert Hedin, ed. (2007). "The Amateur; Dialogue; None of This". Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN   978-0-87351-584-9.

References

1. Robert Hedin, ed. (2007). Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN   978-0-87351-584-9.
2. "Deborah Keenan | the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline | Hamline University". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
3. "Deborah Keenan wins a Minnesota Book Award". Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-01-25.