Erin Keane

Email: ekeane@salon.com

Erin Keane is Salon's Chief Content Officer. She is on faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University, teaching creative nonfiction and poetry, and her memoir in essays, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me," was named one of NPR's Books We Loved In 2022. She has held a variety of roles at Salon since 2014, including culture editor, managing editor, and editor in chief.

A collection of some of our staff picks. (Photo illustration by Salon / Courtesy of Netflix, Apple TV+, Darren Vargas, Penguin Random House)

The best of 2025 . . . so far

Kelly McClure, Natalie Moore, Coleman Spilde, Melanie McFarland, Hanh Nguyen, Erin Keane, Andi Zeisler, Amanda Marcotte, Bennett Taren, Alex Galbraith, Ashlie D. Stevens

Amanda Marcotte in Salon's New York studio. (Salon)

Watch “Standing Room Only with Amanda Marcotte,” Salon’s new YouTube show and podcast

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A person enters a voting booth at a polling station at Colebrook Academy and Elementary School in Colebrook, New Hampshire, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Live updates: Salon’s latest 2024 elections news

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A smartphone displaying the US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department" on Spotify. (AFP via Getty Images)

Taylor Swift in the tortured poet’s workshop

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is seen outside the U.S. Capitol after last votes of the week on Thursday, December 7, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

MTG pushes Great Replacement rhetoric, and threatens Speaker Mike Johnson with ouster, on Fox News

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National Guard soldiers stand guard on the banks of the Rio Grande river at Shelby Park on January 12, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. The Texas National Guard continues its blockade and surveillance of Shelby Park in an effort to deter illegal immigration. The Department of Justice has accused the Texas National Guard of blocking Border Patrol agents from carrying out their duties along the river. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“Abbott’s inhumanity has no limit”: Dems blame Texas governor for migrant children drowning deaths

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Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump still far ahead in Iowa poll, trailed by Haley and DeSantis — and taking shots at Ramaswamy

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Woman bathing in a hot spring (Getty Images/Jesus Sierra)

Salon’s 10 most popular life stories of 2023: Satanic panics, getting naked with strangers and more

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Antiquarian copies of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles edited by Sir James Murray, line shelves in the Lee Library of the British Academy, on 17th September 2017, at 10-12 Carlton House Terrace, in London, England. (Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images)

Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary, a Victorian era crowdsourcing project

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US Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks to members of the media at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 4, 2023. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Rep. Jim Jordan, endorsed by Donald Trump, tells Fox News he feels “very good” about Speaker bid

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Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes on October 08, 2023, in Gaza City, Gaza. After the October 7 attack launched by Hamas on Israel, which surprised them, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Palestinians to leave Gaza, and warned that the army would turn Hamas positions "into rubble." (Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

Israeli and Palestinian death reports rise as Netanyahu vows “a long and difficult war”

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Young women having a party in an apartment (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

“You cannot convince someone to be with you”: How to survive—and thrive—in “The Heartbreak Years”

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Lala Kent, James Kennedy, Katie Maloney, Ariana Madix, Andy Cohen, Lisa Vanderpump, Tom Sandoval, Tom Schwartz and Scheana Shay of "Vanderpump Rules" (Nicole Weingart/Bravo)

The heart of Schwartzness: The roots of the “Vanderpump Rules” Scandoval implosion run deep

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Computer keyboard and meadow flowers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Maggie Smith on her memoir’s unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about “Good Bones”

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Richard Belzer at the 90th Birthday Of Jerry Lewis at The Friars Club on April 8, 2016 in New York City. (John Lamparski/WireImage/Getty Images)

Richard Belzer, beloved “Law & Order: SVU” star and stand-up comedian, dies at 78

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Gingerbread House listed on Zillow (Photo by Michael Dugan)

A tiny gingerbread house got listed on Zillow for 31 days, and the price felt all too real

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George Santos (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why do guys like George Santos lie? I asked myself the same thing about my father

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Salon's Favorite Books of 2022 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Harper Collins/Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster/Stanford University Press)

Salon’s favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction

Erin Keane, Troy Farah, Matthew Rozsa, Ashlie D. Stevens, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Amanda Marcotte, D. Watkins, Kelly McClure, Alison Stine, Hanh Nguyen, Andrew O'Hehir, Chauncey DeVega