Deborah Keenan

Deborah Keenan is the author of six collections of poetry and has been published in over fifty literary magazines and anthologies. A regular contributor to Water~Stone Review, founder of the Laurel Poetry Collective, teacher and mentor at the Loft Literary Center, Keenan has always made an effort to connect with the community and bring art into the lives of those who may otherwise have been without. A Professor at the Graduate School at Hamline University where Keenan has been honored with the Hamline University award for professor of the year three times. This year (2006-2007) Keenan will be holding the Edelstein-Keller chair, a position reserved to help bring distinguished Minnesotan authors to the University of Minnesota. Keenan is a mother of four children and lives with her husband, head of Urban Programs for Habitat for Humanity International, in St. Paul.