Poet, author and literary critic, Keelan Watlington is the author of Long Beach, a metamodernist, philosophical novel written in 2022, as well as the poetry chapbook Gleamings, completed in 2023. A growing collection of his critical and personal essays can be found on his Substack, as well as on his website’s blog.

Born in New York City to a family of writers and raised in the woods of Western Massachusetts, he was educated at Simon’s Rock College of Bard where he specialized in the Classical languages.

He currently lives on Long Island where he splits his time between writing and seeking out what remains of the Whitmanian spirit among the people, water and trees.