F Keith WahleF. Keith Wahle was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1947, and grew up in Northern Kentucky. In 1969, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati, where he studied Poetry Writing with David Schloss. He later entered the University of Iowa Writers' Worksop, where he studied with Donald Justice, Helen Chasin, Marvin Bell, Mark Strand, and Larry Levis, receiving an MFA degree in English in 1974. His work has been published in numerous magazines and journals. He received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in 1984, 1990, and 2003. In the mid-nineties, he became interested in performance work, creating numerous interdisciplinary collaborations, usually with dancers and musicians. He also wrote and performed in a number of short dialogues and monologues. He is an enthusiastic Modern Dance fan, an avid book collector, a movie and video nut, and a music lover, with a special interest in Jazz, Blues, and American Folk Music. He and his wife, Beth are both retired from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. They live in the White Oak neighborhood of Cincinnati. Read More Read Less