BRADFORD, Pa. — Erin Keane, the chief content officer of Salon, will visit the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford Oct. 10.

Keane’s talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Mukaiyama University Room of the Frame-Westerberg Commons. It is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Keane is the author of “Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made me,” one of NPR’s best books of 2022. For “Runaway,” she uses her reporter’s skills to unravel the story of her mother, who ran away from her Kansas home as a teenager and married a man more than twice her age in New York City.

Los Angeles Times critic Lorraine Berry wrote of “Runaway,” “Among the jeweled facets of “Runaway” is Keane’s writing, but her skill as a poet and essayist is accompanied by a journalist’s rigor.

“She has researched the details of not only her parents’ lives but also the events, laws and attitudes of the time and place that made them. “Runaway” lures us with a fairy tale, but as we draw closer, we begin to see the contours of a world that is more complex but no less fearsome.”

Dr. Nancy McCabe, director of the writing program at Pitt-Bradford, explained why she wanted to invite Keane to campus. “She’s accomplished in two genres, poetry and creative nonfiction, and, having worked with her on a couple of articles for Salon, I know that she is a generous and knowledgeable editor,” she said. “Students will enjoy her work, which engages popular culture and personal experience, and have a chance to learn about writing and editing from different angles.”

Keane is a critic, poet, essayist and journalist. She’s the author of three collections of poetry, and editor of “The Louisville Anthology,” which, like her memoir, is published by Belt Publishing.

Her writing has appeared in many publications and anthologies. She has worked at Salon since 2014 and teaches in the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.

Keane’s visit is part of Pitt-Bradford Arts’ Spectrum Series. For more information, visit www.upb.pitt.edu/arts.