Joan Keefe

Joan Trodden Keefe (1931 – February 7, 2013) was an Irish poet, translator, and scholar.

[3] Others appeared in The Other Voice: Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry in Translation, of which she was also a co-editor.

[5] After moving to the United States, Keefe earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1984, with a dissertation consisting of a translation of and commentary on Máirtín Ó Cadhain's Cré na Cille.

[8][9] With Carol Cosman and Kathleen Weaver, she edited the Penguin Book of Women Poets.

[11] A frequent contributor to World Literature Today, she published 24 articles and reviews in the journal.