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Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, and her latest poetry collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, was released in Fall of 2022 by Texas Review Press. Her latest novel, From Dust to Stardust, came out in September 2023. She lives in Chicago and teaches at DePaul.

Kathleen Rooney es editora fundadora de Rose Metal Press, una editorial sin fines de lucro de obras literarias en géneros híbridos, y miembro fundadora de Poems While You Wait, un colectivo de poetas y sus máquinas de escribir que componen poesía por encargo. Es autora de las novelas Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk y Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, así como de su más reciente poemario Where Are the Snows, ganador del XJ Kennedy Prize, y que fue publicado durante el otoño de 2022 por Texas Review Press. Su más reciente novela, From Dust to Stardust, se publicó en septiembre de 2023. Vive en Chicago y da clases en DePaul.