Kathleen Rooney

Kathleen Rooney is the Writer-in-Residence at Roosevelt for the 2011-12 school year. She is extremely active in the Chicago literary scene, has her own press, and has published books of both poetry and creative non-fiction.

A recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from Poetry magazine, her first collection, Oneiromance (an epithalamion) won the 2007 Gatewood Prize from feminist publisher Switchback Books, and her collaborative collection That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (co-written with Elisa Gabbert) was published by Otoliths in 2008. Also with Gabbert, she is the co-author of the chapbooks Something Really Wonderful (dancing girl press, 2007) and Don’t ever stay the same; keep changing (spooky girlfriend press, 2009). Her second solo collection, Robinson Alone Provides the Image: A Novel in Poems, has just been accepted for publication by Gold Wake Press. She will be teaching a non-fiction class this fall and a poetry class in the spring!