Kathleen Rooney

KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of poets and their typewriters who compose poetry on demand. Her most recent books include the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey , and her criticism appears in The New York Times , The Chicago Review of Books , The Brooklyn Rail , The Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere....See more

KATHLEEN ROONEY is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of poets and their typewriters who compose poetry on demand. Her most recent books include the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey , and her criticism appears in The New York Times , The Chicago Review of Books , The Brooklyn Rail , The Los Angeles Review of Books , and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, and teaches at DePaul. See less