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Born Elaine Joy Keller, in Amityville, New York, Lane writes under the names Skye Lane and Lane Keller (and previously under Elaine Beardsley).
A graduate of NYU, Lane's professional writing career began in 1993, with the publication of her nonfiction work, Working In Commercials, by Focal Press/Butterworth, a book that stemmed from her experience as a New York City talent agent with Abrams Artists and Associates.
In 1993, she began research on the novel Poppies, which explores the historical and socio-political underpinnings effecting then, Yugoslavia's, three major ethnic groups: Serb, Croat and Muslim. Spurred by the question, why do people kill each other?, she unearthed hundreds of hours of firsthand experiences through live and written interviews, which became the basis of an opus work spanning one thousand years of South Slav history, culminating in the NATO bombing of Belgrade.
In 1995, Lane relocated to Maryland. There, she wrote stageplays that were produced in Baltimore and along the Eastern seaboard. During this time she co-wrote the nonfiction, Karmascopes, with renowned psychic Joyce Keller, and edited Joyce Keller’s Seven Steps To Heaven, published by Simon and Schuster.
In 2006 she returned to her native New York, where she began Will Read Breasts, based on a fictional woman's experiences as she as she escapes the less-than-liberating state of marraige. In 2007 she produced the stage version of Poppies at the NYC Fringe Festival, where it received enthusiastic reviews.
Shortly thereafter, Lane began research on 500 Women, a sequel to the novel, Will Read Breasts. 500 Women is based on hours of personal past-life regressions, which Lane is currently undergoing with clinical psychologist, Laurie Greenberg Ph. D., in New York City. The results of these readings form the backstory to the contemporary one, that of the relationship between the fictional Elyse and the otherworldly "Sabian," her prophet-like, musician-lover.
Lane’s writing focuses on challenging people's perceptions while exploring the nature of reality.
OTHER WORKS
Her screenplay, THE CHAIR, is based on the true story of Anna Ella Carroll, the secret member of Lincoln's cabinet. Lane’s
stage works have been seen along the Eastern seaboard, in New York City and Baltimore. Her plays for children have run at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, Baltimore Museum of Art, and have toured throughout Maryland.
Lane is Founder and Director of Baltimore’s 5th Wall Theater Company where she ran the very popular Young Filmmakers Workshops with Sundance Award-winning filmmaker, Steve Yeager. She has lectured and taught extensively, and has appeared on radio and television.
She is a recipient of the Maryland State Individual Artist Grant, and is a member of the Author’s Guild. She graduated from New York University with a BA in Liberal Arts in 1994.
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