Celine Keating

Celine Keating is an award-winning author living in New York. Her second novel, Play for Me, will be published in spring 2015. Her first novel, Layla, published in June, 2011, was chosen by both HuffPost and Poets & Writers as a must-read book, and was featured in the summer issues of Poets & Writers in 2011 and 2012. Her second novel, Play for Me, was a 2015 Indie Excellence Award finalist for women's fiction. She is the 2014 first place winner of the Hackney Literary Award in short fiction. Her stories have been published in many literary magazines, including Appearances, Echoes, Emrys Journal, The North Stone Review, Prairie Schooner, and Santa Clara Review. Keating is a board member of The Concerned Citizens of Montauk, an environmental group. She is also a music reviewer and contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine and Minor7th.com.