Erin Keane

Erin Keane is Salon’s Chief Content Officer. She has held a variety of roles at Salon since 2014, including culture editor, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief. She is a graduate of the Poynter Institute’s Leadership Academy for Women in Media and the National Critics Institute. Previously, she served as an arts and culture reporter at WFPL, Louisville Public Media’s NPR affiliate — where she won regional awards for her investigative reporting and arts criticism — and at The Courier Journal, the daily metro newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky.

Keane teaches MFA courses and workshops for the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. She is the author of five books; her latest, “Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me,” a hybrid of family memoir and cultural criticism, was named one of NPR’s Books We Loved. A frequent and fierce competitor in the annual March Xness Tournament, her essays on culture and memory have been published in many journals and anthologies, including the 2026 collection, “Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology.” She co-hosted and co-produced the public radio limited series, “These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast.”

She is a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels and the recipient of fellowships from the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Kentucky Arts Council and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. You can find her on Bluesky at @erinkeane.bsky.social and on Threads at @eekshecried.