Céline Keating

Céline Keating is an award-winning writer and author of Layla (2011 and Play for Me (2015). Her most recent novel, The Stark Beauty of Last Things (She Writes Press, 2023) was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award in fiction, a finalist in the Indie Excellence award (literary fiction), a winner (bronze) of the Independent Publisher Book Awards (fiction, northeast), and winner (gold) of the National Indie Excellence Awards (fiction, northeast region). Excerpts of the novel also won two national fiction awards. Her short fiction and nonfiction articles have been published in many literary journals and magazines. For many years a resident of New York City and Montauk, NY, Céline continues to serve on the board of environmental organization Concerned Citizens of Montauk. She is the coeditor of the anthology On Montauk: A Literary Celebration. She and her husband live on the coast in Bristol, Rhode Island.