Erin Keane lives, works and writes in Louisville, Kentucky

Erin Keane is the author of The Gravity Soundtrack, a full-length collection of poems (WordFarm, 2007), and The One-Hit Wonders (Snark Publishing, 2006), a chapbook of poems about and inspired by rock & roll. Her new novel-in-poems, Death Defying Acts, will be published by WordFarm in 2009.

Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines, including Nimrod, Phoebe, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sou'wester, Poems & Plays, New Southerner, Now & Then and Louisville Magazine.

Keane earned her MFA in creative writing at Spalding University. These days, she teaches sophomores about Pop Music in American Literature at Bellarmine University and high school creative writing workshops for the Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts.

A recipient of a fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, she directs the InKY Reading Series in Louisville, Ky. Keane also writes a blog for Velocity and serves on the editorial boards of New Southerner and The Heartland Review.

Erin Keane lives in a crooked little neighborhood called Germantown in Louisville, Kentucky. She'd be happy to show you around.