Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She teaches English and creative writing at DePaul University and is the author, most recently, of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (St. Martin’s, 2017), and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey (Penguin, 2020), as well as the poetry collection Where Are the Snows (Texas Review Press, 2022). She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay.