Deborah Keenan is the author of Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems. Her previous books of poetry include Good Heart, Happiness, and Kingdoms. She is also the co-editor, with Roseann Lloyd, of Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile, winner of the American Book Award in 1991.

Susan Ludvigson compares the poetry of Deborah Keenan to that of Emily Dickinson, drawing on Keenan’s images “startled from a dream that disorient and challenge our perceptions even as they delight us with their inventions.”

Recognized as “ambitious” by the Village Voice, “a poet of considerable talent” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and a poet who “rarely strikes a false note” by the New York Times Book Review, Keenan has received two Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry, an NEA Fellowship, and the Loft-McKnight poet of distinction award. In 1994, 2000, and 2004 she was named professor of the year for teaching and service in the M.F.A. program at Hamline University, where she is a professor in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies. She lives with her husband in St. Paul.

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