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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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February 2008

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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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…is the number of poems that we–Alexis Foran, Eric Plattner, and I–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Jane Addams Hull House’s Hull-o-Ween Open House: Thank you, as ever, to Hull House for having us and stay tuned to the Poems While You Wait instagram for the results!

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Average rating: 3.84 · 40,731 ratings · 6,834 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk 3.84 avg rating — 34,368 ratings — published 2017 — 21 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 — 2,528 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Man Overboard! 3.44 avg rating — 2,126 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 3.85 avg rating — 657 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 3.98 avg rating — 183 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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The Lord

by Soraya Antonius

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Project Hail Mary

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Kathleen liked Grace Waldfogel's review of Man Overboard!: "I found this novella very interesting and different from things I usually read. It is a novella about a man fallen from a cruise ship and it is all inner monologue and his psychological experience, that is it. Very strange but I enjoyed it. "
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Kathleen and 39 other people liked Liana Gold's review of Man Overboard!: "⭐️ 3.75 ⭐️ 208 pages of being stuck in a mans head. A literary fiction/psychological survival story of a man who took a Thanksgiving cruise with his family and fell overboard in Gulf of Mexico. Yikes, I would die! As a 33 year old ex-competitive swim" Read more of this review »
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Kathleen liked Mary Ellen's review of Man Overboard!: "Short read. Interesting concept. I can relate to the man who is overboard and his thoughts about the state of our physical world and the state of humankind emotionally and physically and the state of our relationships. We feel adrift these days, righ" Read more of this review »
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Kathleen liked Melissa Arkin's review of Man Overboard!: "Wow. First of all, I loved the writing. All of it. Sometimes subtle, sometimes obvious. This story dragged at times but I couldn't stop. That's talent. And the ending was perfect"
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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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Polls

March Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

Top 5 books will move onto Final poll

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

14 votes, 32.6%

The Clockmaker's Daughter

by Kate Morton

13 votes, 30.2%

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark T. Sullivan

5 votes, 11.6%

The Last Time I Lied

by Riley Sager

4 votes, 9.3%

The Woods

by Harlan Coben

2 votes, 4.7%

Miss Jane

by Brad Watson

2 votes, 4.7%

A Certain Age

by Beatriz Williams

1 vote, 2.3%

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi

1 vote, 2.3%

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

by Mark Dunn

1 vote, 2.3%

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

by Kathleen Rooney

0 votes, 0.0%

43 total votes

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