She is the author of two novels, Solace, which won the 2011 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Tender (2015).
McKeon's first novel, Solace, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize[1] and the Sunday Independent Best Newcomer Award and was named Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book of the Year in 2011,[2] as well as being shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
[3] The Economist called Solace "a warm and wise debut",[4] while The Irish Times described it as "at once a moving and gracefully etched story of human loss and interconnection set in contemporary Ireland and a deeply affecting meditation on being in the world".
McKeon is also a playwright and her produced plays include Word of Mouth (an RTE radio drama, 2005), Drapes (Dublin, 2006), and Graham and Frost (Irish Theatre Festival, New York, 2010).
From 2008 to 2011, she curated the DLR Poetry Now Festival in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, and, with her husband Aengus Woods, she has curated the annual Poetry Fest at the Irish Arts Center, New York, since 2009.