Deborah Keenan (born 1950, in Minneapolis) is an American poet.
Life
She is an editor for Milkweed Editions. She also teaches at Hamline University. She lives with her husband, Stephen Seidel, who is director of urban programs for Habitat for Humanity. They have four children.
Awards
Bush Foundation Fellowships for her poetry
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
The Loft McKnight Poet of Distinction award
2006-2007 Edelstein Keller Minnesota author of Distinction at the University of Minnesota 1991 American Book Award
Works
One Angel Then, Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981
Household Wounds, New Rivers Press, 1981, The Only Window That Counts, New Rivers Press, 1985, How We Missed Belgium, Milkweed Editions, 1984, (written with Jim Moore)
Good heart, Milkweek Editions, 2003, Kingdoms, Laurel Poetry Collective, 2006, Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, March, 2007, Milkweed Editions.
Editor
Looking For Home: Women Writing About Exile, editors Deborah Keenan, Roseann Lloyd, Milkweed Editions, 1990,