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Erin Keane

Professor of Creative, Professor of Nonfiction Poetry
Erin Keane

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Erin Keane is editor in chief at Salon.com, where she also writes about books, cocktails, and culture. Her memoir in essays, Runaway, was released from Belt Publishing in September 2022. She is also the author of three full-length poetry collections — Demolition of the Promised Land, Death-Defying Acts, and The Gravity Soundtrack — and editor of The Louisville Anthology, from Belt’s city anthology series. Her poems, plays, essays, and award-winning journalism have been published in How to Read a Poem; David Bowie: A Life; All Things Considered and many other outlets. In 2018, she co-produced and co-hosted the limited-series audio project These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast. Keane is a recipient of the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Marlene M. Helm Award for outstanding alumnus of the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. She holds an MFA from Spalding University.