While alternately wandering through Rhode Island cemeteries and obsessively watching Twin Peaks, Michael Keenan wrote the chapbook, TWO GIRLS, which was released by Say No Press in 2009. Shortly thereafter he received his MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana where he drove a waffle truck around the French Quarter and wrote poems on receipts from Cafe Du Monde, some of which have appeared in "Poetry International, the PEN Poetry Series, Fence, A-Minor Magazine, RealPoetik, Paul Revere's Horse, Caketrain, Right Hand Pointing, Ad-Hominem Art-Review" and