Deborah Keenan

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

Life

She edits for Milkweed editions.^[1] She teaches at Hamline University.^[2] 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^[3]
• 1991 American Book Award

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)
• Happiness: poems. Coffee House Press. 1995. ISBN 9781566890335. http://books.google.com/books?id=0pbPiYzDzrAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Deborah+Keenan&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• 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

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 9780873515849. http://books.google.com/books?id=fGIJN56SoEgC&lpg=PA244&dq=Deborah%20Keenan&lr=&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ Robert Hedin, ed (2007). Where one voice ends another begins: 150 years of Minnesota poetry. Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 9780873515849. http://books.google.com/books?id=fGIJN56SoEgC&lpg=PA244&dq=Deborah%20Keenan&lr=&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
2. ^ http://www.hamline.edu/gls/faculty_and_staff/bios/keenan_bio.html
3. ^ http://www.hamline.edu/shared/news_items/gls/keenan_mnbookaward.html

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