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Bio
Photos by: Tom Keefe
Katheen's CV
Kathleen Rooney was born in Beckley, West Virginia and raised in the Midwest. Along with Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, and the author of Oneiromance (an epithalamion), winner of the 2007 Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books.
Her first book is Reading with Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas, 2005), released in a paperback with new material in Spring 2008. Her second book, That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, poetry collaborations with Elisa Gabbert, will be published by Otoliths Books in Spring 2008. Her occupational memoir, Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object is forthcoming from University of Arkansas Press in 2009, and the essay from which it originated appears in Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006).
A 2003 recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine, her own poems, as well as collaborations, have appeared in a variety of journals, as have her essays and criticism. She has taught English and Creative Writing at Emerson College, Northeastern University, Grub Street, the Boston Center for Adult Education, and Pacific Lutheran University. Currently, she is taking a break from teaching to work in the office of U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL). She lives in Chicago with her husband, the writer Martin Seay.
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