- Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney is an American writer and editor. She was born in
Beckley, West Virginia and raised in theMidwest . She earned a B.A. from theGeorge Washington University and an M.F.A. in Writing, Literature, and Publishing fromEmerson College . She was also a 2003 recipient of a [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/prizes_fellowship.html/ Ruth Lilly Fellowship] from "Poetry Magazine ".Her first book, about
Oprah's Book Club , titled "Reading with Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America" was published by [http://www.uark.edu/~uaprinfo/indices/indexfa07.html/ University of Arkansas Press] in 2005, and was released in an updated paperback in 2008.Rooney was named one of the Best New Voices of 2006 by Random House, which included her essay "Live Nude Girl" in their influential anthology Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. She is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. Along with Elisa Gabbert, she is the author of the collaborative poetry chapbook "Something Really Wonderful" and the collection "That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness". A book-length version of Live Nude Girl is forthcoming from University of Arkansas Press.
Rooney currently lives in
Chicago with her husband, the writer Martin Seay.Interviews
* [http://turnrow.ulm.edu/view.php?i=74&setcat=interview/ Interview with Kathleen Rooney in turnrow]
* [http://boston.metblogs.com/archives/2007/05/interview_kathl_1.phtml/ Interview with Kathleen Rooney in Metroblogging Boston]External links
* [http://www.kathleenrooney.com/ Kathleen Rooney's website]
* [http://rosemetalpress.com/ Rose Metal Press website]
* [http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/index2.html/ Dancing Girl Press]
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