Life

Keelan, who was born in Anaheim, California

Anaheim, California

Anaheim is a city in Orange County, California. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was about 365,463, making it the most populated city in Orange County, the 10th most-populated city in California, and ranked 54th in the United States...

, is a graduate of Humboldt State University

Humboldt State University

Humboldt State University is the northernmost campus of the California State University system, located in Arcata within Humboldt County, California, USA. The main campus, nestled at the edge of a coast redwood forest, is situated on Preston hill overlooking Arcata and with commanding views of...

 and the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...

. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Missing Her (New Issues Press

New Issues Press

New Issues Press is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University. It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott...

, 2009), and has published poems widely in magazines and journals, including The American Poetry Review, Smartish Pace, Electronic Poetry Review, Conduit, Pequod, American Letters & Commentary, and Jacket Magazine. She has published poems and essays in anthologies including The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) 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. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband, the poet Donald Revell

Donald Revell

Donald Revell is an American poet, essayist, translator and professor.Revell has won numerous honors and awards for his work, beginning with his first book, From the Abandoned Cities, which was a National Poetry Series winner. More recently, he won the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and is a two-time...

, and their children. 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

Dean Rader

Dean Rader is an American writer, blogger, poet, and professor who teaches at the University of San Francisco. He is primarily known for his scholarly work on Native American poetry. In 2008, his blog, , got some attention in the blogosphere when one of his posts, ]'s State of the Union Speech,...

).

Honors and awards

• 2001 Silver Pen Award
• 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

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