Kristin Keane is the author of An Encyclopedia of Bending Time and Luminaries. She is a researcher at Stanford University where she earned a PhD.

Her essays and research appear or are forthcoming in: The Believer, The Washington Post, Ploughshares, New England Review, Creative Nonfiction, Reading Research Quarterly, American Educator, The Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers, The Journal of Educational Research, Literacy Today, and elsewhere.