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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 is the author, most recently, of the novels Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Her latest collection Where Are the Snows, winner of the XJ Kennedy Prize, has just been released by Texas Review Press and her next novel, From Dust to Stardust, will be published by Lake Union Press in Fall of 2023.

Kathleen Rooney es editora fundadora de Rose Metal Press, editorial de obras literarias de género híbrido, y miembro fundador de Poems While You Wait, un equipo de poetas y sus máquinas de escribir que componen poesía por encargo bajo demanda. Es autora, más recientemente, de las novelas Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk y Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. Su última colección Where Are the Snows, ganadora del XJ Kennedy Prize, acaba de ser lanzada por Texas Review Press y su próxima novela, From Dust to Stardust, será publicada por Lake Union Press en el otoño de 2023.