Deborah Keenan
Encyclopedia
Life
She edits for Milkweed editions.She teaches at Hamline University
Hamline University
-Red Wing location :Hamline was named in honor of Leonidas Lent Hamline, a bishop of the Methodist Church whose interest in the frontier led him to donate $25,000 toward the building of an institution of higher learning in what was then the territory of Minnesota. Today, a statue of Bishop Hamline...
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She lives with her husband, Stephen Seidel, who is director of urban programs for Habitat for Humanity. They have four children.
Awards
- Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry
- National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Fellowship - The Loft McKnight Poet of Distinction award
- 2006-2007 Edelstein Keller Minnesota author of Distinction at the University of MinnesotaUniversity of MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
- 1991 American Book AwardAmerican Book AwardThe American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
Works
- One Angel Then, Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981
- Household Wounds, New Rivers Press, 1981, ISBN 9780898230222
- The Only Window That Counts, New Rivers Press, 1985, ISBN 9780898230697
- How We Missed Belgium, Milkweed Editions, 1984, ISBN 9780915943029 (written with Jim Moore)
- Good heart, Milkweek Editions, 2003, ISBN 9781571314154
- Kingdoms, Laurel Poetry Collective, 2006, ISBN 9780978797317
- Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, March, 2007, Milkweed Editions. ISBN 9781571314260
Editor
- Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, editors Deborah Keenan, Roseann Lloyd, Milkweed Editions, 1990, ISBN 9780915943456