Claudia Keelan

Claudia Keelan (born 1959) is an American poet, writer, and professor.

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Life

Keelan, who was born in Anaheim, California, is a graduate of Humboldt State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Missing Her (New Issues Press, 2009), and has published poems widely in magazines and journals, including The American Poetry Review,[1] Smartish Pace,[2] Electronic Poetry Review, Conduit, Pequod, American Letters & Commentary, and Jacket Magazine.[3] She has published poems and essays in anthologies including The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)[4] and American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2009).

She directs the MFA program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and serves as the editor of Interim, the university's annual literary review.[5] She lives in Las Vegas with her husband, the poet Donald Revell, and their children.[6] Keelan has also served as a judge for two of the most prestigious poetry prizes, the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize (2009, winner Laura McKee) and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize (2010, winner Dean Rader).

Bibliography

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Chapbooks

Honors and awards

References

  1. ^ The American Poetry Review Jan/Feb 2007 Vol. 36/No. 1 > Claudia Keelan
  2. ^ Smartishpace Issue 10: Claudia Keelan
  3. ^ Jacket Magazine > April 2005 > Claudia Keelan: Four Poems
  4. ^ Wesleyan University Press/UPNE - The Grand Permission Book Page
  5. ^ UNLV Magazine > Features > Claudia Keelan > Summer 2007
  6. ^ Poets & Writers > An Interview with Poet Claudia Keelan by Todd Marshall > 04/12/02
  7. ^ Friends Newsletter, Sandra Macias, University of Nevada, Reno, (Fall 2001)

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