ABOUT
Carol Keeley's work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, New England Review, Arts & Letters, Oxford Poetry, Antioch Review, Chicago Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, The Chicago Tribune, New American Writing, Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. She won the 2019 Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She was a finalist for the 2017 Nelson Algren Award and a runner up in Zoetrope’s fiction contest. Keeley was nominated for a 2019 Pushcart.
She has taught writing workshops at Columbia College and the University of Colorado. She has also taught at Naropa University and offers free writing workshops for veterans.
NEWS & AWARDS
Finalist in the 2020 CRAFT Elements contest
Semifinalist in the 2020 Sewanee Review Nonfiction contest, judged by Melissa Febos
Winner of the 2019 Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Non-Fiction, Arts & Letters for "Demon Feeding"
Finalist in the 2017 Nelson Algren Literary Award Competition for "Errata"
"'Demon Feeding’ [by Carol Keeley] does at least three things really well at one time. It raises our consciousness about PTSD among veterans and the personal hell our government’s decisions create in them; it has a compelling understory and a character we care about—the narrator—who is fighting demons of her own; and it braids those two really seamlessly, using plenty of sensory detail to keep us engaged and even giving us a moment of happiness amidst all the sad spoils of a difficult world. It’s a beautifully made and important essay.”
- Pam Houston, judge of the Susan Atefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction
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