Deborah KeenanDeborah Keenan is the author of eight collections of poetry. Her newest, Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, was published by Milkweed Editions Press in 2007, and received the Minnesota Book Award in 2007. She is coeditor (with Roseann Loyd) of Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile, which won the American Book Award in 1991. Keenan has received two Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry, an NEA Fellowship, The Loft-McKnight Poet of Distinction award, among other grants and awards. She is a professor in the MFA program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in both 1994 and 2000, was named professor of the year for teaching and service in the MFA/MALS program. She also teaches once a year at The Loft Literary Center, and for Compleat Scholar at the University of Minnesota, and also runs private classes. She's currently at work on two new collections of poems. Read More Read Less