Eleanor Keisman

Eleanor Keisman is an American writer and poet living in Vienna, Austria. She holds a BA from The New School in New York City and an MFA from Drexel University in Philadelphia. She’s a former EFL teacher, taught in Czechia, Poland and China, speaks fluent German and studied linguistics at the University of Vienna. Her short stories, poetry and essays have appeared in Litro Magazine, The Bangalore Review, Tough Crime, Last Stanza Poetry Journal and The Wild Umbrella, as well as adapted for ‘The Other Stories’ podcast. She writes a weekly Substack called Diary of a Reader and co-organizes an English-language writing group. Her novella, New Animal, was shortlisted for the 2025 MFA novel award with Broken Tribe Press and published in August 2025.

 

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