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Kathleen Rooney

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Born

Beckley, West Virginia, The United States

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http://www.kathleenrooney.com/

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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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, was published by Texas Review Press in September 2022. Her novel from Dust to Stardust, was published by Lake Union Press in Fall of 2023, and her debut picture book--co-written with her sister Beth Rooney and illustrated by Betsy Bowen--was published by University of Minnesota Press in Fall of 2025.

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55…

…is the number of poems that we–Sabrina Alsaffar, Sam Nassau, Eric Plattner, Molly Sturdevant, Matt Warakomski, and I–wrote at the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s Summer Soiree: Thank you, as ever, to the CPL Foundation for having us and stay tuned to the Poems While You Wait instagram for the results!

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	Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk 3.84 avg rating — 34,194 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey 3.96 avg rating — 2,511 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man Overboard! 3.49 avg rating — 1,574 ratings — published 2026 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Dust to Stardust 3.86 avg rating — 649 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object 3.97 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O, Democracy! 3.91 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Robinson Alone 4.47 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs 3.92 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oneiromance by Kathleen Rooney (Goodreads Author), Patty Seyburn (Editor) 4.46 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America 3.46 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ogygia

by Guillaume Delabar

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Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)

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Kathleen rated a book it was amazing Paper Money by Winshen Liu	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Lunch at a Tavern The office courtyard has four tables, each with four chairs. My coworkers sit one person per table. They are quintessential Americans. I think of the time my mother and I shared a reuben, the angular taste of rye bread. She asked what my g ...more
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Kathleen liked Sonia's review of Man Overboard!: "Funny, coming of age (?), short but sweet "
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Kathleen liked Sam Spina's review of Man Overboard!: "DNF for me. Just not for me and the structure of the chapters and story made it hard to follow on audiobook."
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Kathleen liked Linda McCune's review of Man Overboard!: "A very interesting book as a man goes overboard on a cruise in the middle of the night. He talks-to himself as he floats. His story goes back and forth in time. The ending was not a surprise as that is what I hoped would happen."
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"But if you take any food or water during that time, you will stay. Are these terms acceptable to you?" I looked straight into his eyes and accepted his terms. ...more
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"My voice sounded like mice yelling for help" (302). "Sheldon was standing there. His face was the color of an old slice of egg, but his blue eyes looked like the eyes of a baby reaching for a new toy" (172). ...more
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Quotes by Kathleen Rooney (?)

“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

tags: anger, expression, feeling, poetry

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“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

tags: keep-on, living, motivation, resilience

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“If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

tags: loss, love

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February 2020 Member 's Choice Book Selection

Voting will stay open until Jan 16th.

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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

by Kathleen Rooney

8 votes, 21.6%

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

6 votes, 16.2%

Nothing to See Here

by Kevin Wilson

6 votes, 16.2%

The Untelling

by Tayari Jones

5 votes, 13.5%

I Know Who You Are

by Alice Feeney

4 votes, 10.8%

Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

by Drema Hall Berkheimer

3 votes, 8.1%

What the Wind Knows

by Amy Harmon

3 votes, 8.1%

The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt

1 vote, 2.7%

Stones in the Road

by E.B. Moore

1 vote, 2.7%

This Was Not the Plan

by Cristina Alger

0 votes, 0.0%

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