![]() ![]() They are the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Rust Belt Femme, which was named in NPR’s Favorite Books of 2020. Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer and educator living in Ohio on Erie and Mississauga land. ![]() She is editor in chief at Salon, where she has worked since 2014, and she teaches in the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. Her writing has appeared in many publications and anthologies, and in 2018, she co-produced and co-hosted the limited audio series These Miracles Work: A Hold Steady Podcast. She’s the author of three collections of poetry, and editor of The Louisville Anthology (Belt Publishing). At stake within Runaway are some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves: What’s true? What gets remembered? Who gets to tell the stories that make us who we are?Įrin Keane is a critic, poet, essayist, and journalist. Along the way, she also considers how pop culture has kept similar narratives alive in her. Through a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. Erin Keane, author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me will be in conversation with Raechel Jolie (Rustbelt Femme) at Mac's on Wednesday, November 2nd at 7 p.m. ![]()
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