Abigail Keegan

Abigail Keegan is a Professor of English at Oklahoma City University where she teaches British and Women's Literature.She is the author of two books of poetry, The Feast of the Assumptions and Oklahoma Journey, and recently her chapbook of poetry received a Merit Award in Byline's 25th anniversary poetry contest.She is the former editor of Piecework: A Poetry Magazine for Women.For those interested in pop culture, gay studies and queer theory, her book, Byron's Othered Self and Voice: Contextualizing the Homographic Signature, presents Bryon as a Romantic poet, privately anguished and yet a publicly adored superstar of his day.His creation of poetry is enmeshed with a period of English history where the Vere Street executions of homosexual men are horrific occasions of social oppression with consequences surpassing the Salem Witch Trials.

Abigail Keegan