Deborah Keenan's seventh book Kingdoms, will be out in October of 2006 from Laurel Poetry Collective, and her eighth book, Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems, will be out in March, 2007, from Milkweed Editions. 

Her previous collections of poetry include: Household Wounds, The Only Window That Counts, How We Missed Belgium (written with Jim Moore), One Angel Then, a limited edition text designed and illustrated and hand-printed by Gaylord Schanilec, Happiness, and Good Heart, now in its second printing, from Milkweed Editions.  She is, with Roseann Lloyd, co-editor 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.  In 1994, 2000, and 2004 she was named professor of the year for teaching and service in the Graduate School of Liberal Studies(MALS & MFA programs)at Hamline University. In 2006-2007 she will be the Edelstein Keller Minnesota author of Distinction at the University of Minnesota.