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 verse novel, Death Defying Acts, will be published by WordFarm in April 2010.

Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including Minnetonka Review, The Lumberyard, MOTIF: Writing by Ear, LEO, The Courier-Journal, Velocity, Nimrod, Phoebe, Spoon River Poetry Review, 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 and Writing for New Media at Bellarmine University, community creative writing workshops, 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, theatre reviews for LEO, and serves on the editorial boards of New Southerner and The Heartland Review.