Her reviews and commentary air on National Public Radio and on The Newshour (PBS).
[5] She went on to work for over 25 years as a reporter for many major newspapers, including The Columbus Dispatch, The Daily Independent, and the Chicago Tribune.
[5] She was formerly employed as a cultural critic for the Chicago Tribune, but left her job in 2012 to write full-time.
[2][6] Keller won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her three-part narrative account of the deadly Utica, Illinois tornado outbreak, published by the Chicago Tribune in April 2004.
In 2008, Keller wrote a nonfiction book that detailed the cultural impact of the Gatling gun.