Claudia Keelan

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

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

• Missing Her (New Issues Press, 2009)
• The Devotion Field (Alice James Books, 2005 - Finalist, 2005 PEN Center USA Award in Poetry)
• Utopic (Alice James Books, 2000 Beatrice Hawley Award)
• The Secularist (University of Georgia, 1997 - Contemporary Poetry Series winner)
• Refinery (Cleveland State University 1994 - Cleveland State University Poetry Prize winner)

Chapbooks

• Of and among there was a locus(t) (Ahsahta Press, 2003)

Honors and awards

• 2001 Silver Pen Award^[7]
• 1997 The Secularist was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
• 1992 grant from the Kentucky Foundation for WomenMs. * 1991 fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico
• 1990 Jesse Stuart Award for excellence in teaching

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)

External links

• Alice James Books Website
• Claudia Keelan Sample Poems: A Domestic Chapter, Antique, My Twentieth Century, Blue Diamond
• Range of the Possible: Conversations with Contemporary Poets, Tod Marshall, Eastern Washington University Press, May 2002
• Donald Revell & Claudia Keelan - Las Vegas, NV, Poets on Place, December 17, 2003
• Claudia Keelan & Alice Notley from A Conversation > The American Poetry Review > May 2004
• UNLV Magazine, Summer, 2007
• Reading Between A & B: Claudia Keelan - April 30, 2007

Persondata
Name	Keelan, Claudia
Alternative names
Short description	Poet, writer, professor
Date of birth	1959
Place of birth	Anaheim, California, United States
Date of death
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