Press 9 for Pig Latin

Press 9 For Pig Latin is a moving and humorous story collection on mental health issues, infidelity, addiction and garden-variety heartbreak. When life hits hard, characters must figure out how to hit back, turn the other cheek, or dodge the punches and run. In this contemporary fiction collection, characters find themselves in desperate and unforgiving circumstances when at their most fragile and raw. A mother learns of the sudden death of her husband and must juggle grieving, single motherhood, poverty and her sister's extended visit; a drunken Friday night prank by teenagers ends in the involuntary manslaughter of a gas station attendant; a father attends a bizarre ritualistic memorial service for his manic-depressive son who commit suicide at a music festival; an honourably discharged military officer with PTSD tries to re-adapt to civilian life while living next to his hipster anti-war neighbours; a landscaper tries to resolve her boss's internet connection problems while he fights with her junkie co-worker; two band members skirt the topic of alcoholism, miscarriage, and a complicated relationship history while on tour; a young woman attends a raging warehouse party in an attempt to get her ex-boyfriend back. Jeanie Keogh is from Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada and lives in Belgium where she works as a copywriter, translator and editor. Her short fiction has been published in the Canadian literary magazines TNQ, Filling Station, Fiddlehead, Grain, Room, The Puritan, FreeFall, Broken Pencil, Riddle Fence, and Matrix. Her play Baby Making was produced at the Geordie Theatre in Montreal and the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto, and subsequently published by Harvard Square Editions. She was shortlisted for the 2012 Vancouver International Writers short story contest, received an honourable mention from Room Magazine's 2011 creative non-fiction contest, won second place in Broken Pencil's 2013 Deathmatch competition against Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and was nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award in 2019. As a journalist, her articles have appeared in publications such as Elle, ParentsCanada, and Today's Parent.