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, was a finalist for the 2017 Nelson Algren Award, and a runner up in Zoetrope’s fiction contest. Keeley was nominated for a Pushcart. She has taught creative writing workshops at Columbia College and the University of Colorado.