Céline Keating is the author of novels The Stark Beauty of Last Things (2023), Play for Me (2015) and Layla (2011), and the co-editor of On Montauk: A Literary Celebration. Keating’s themes include an interest in the arts, activism, and the environment. Her short fiction has been published in many literary journals, such as Prairie Schooner, Santa Clara Review, North Stone Review, and Mount Hope, and she was the winner of the 2021 first-place Tucson Festival of Books Fiction Prize and the 2014 first-place Hackney Literary Award in Short Fiction.  www.celinekeating.com [2].