Deborah Keenan
Deborah Keenan is an American poet.Life
She is an editor for Milkweed Editions.
She also teaches at Hamline University.
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 Arts Fellowship
- The Loft McKnight Poet of Distinction award
- 2006-2007 Edelstein Keller Minnesota author of Distinction at the University of Minnesota
- 1991 American Book Award
Works
- One Angel Then, Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981
- Household Wounds, New Rivers Press, 1981,
- The Only Window That Counts, New Rivers Press, 1985,
- How We Missed Belgium, Milkweed Editions, 1984,
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- Good heart, Milkweek Editions, 2003,
- Kingdoms, Laurel Poetry Collective, 2006,
- Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, March, 2007, Milkweed Editions.
Editor
- Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, editors Deborah Keenan, Roseann Lloyd, Milkweed Editions, 1990,
Anthology