A founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, Kathleen Rooney is the co-editor with Eric Plattner of Rene Magritte: Selected Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Her second novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, has just been released by St. Martin’s Press. She teaches at DePaul University and lives in Chicago with her husband, the writer Martin Seay.
Photo by Eric Plattner