Patricia Keeney

Patricia Keeney is the author of nine books of poetry and a picaresque novel entitled The Incredible Shrinking Wife. Her Selected Poems, published in 1996, contains an introduction by the distinguished Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her poetry has been translated into French (winning the Prix Jean Paris in 2003), Spanish, Bulgarian, Chinese and Hindi. Keeney has also produced an experiment in poetry and theatre called Vocal Braiding with sound poet and playwright Penn Kemp, published by Pendas Productions. In 2009, Les Amis de la Poésie in Bergerac published a new French translation of her work and in the same year, the South African journal New Contrast featured a series of her poems based on her living experience in that country. One of three Canadian writers sent to Mexico on a cultural exchange progam under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Keeney used this experience to create a series of conversations and poems on national and personal culture. Called You Bring Me Wings, it will be published in Spanish and English by Antares Press in 2011.