Kathleen Rooney is a poet and a writer. With Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the author of That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008). With Counterpoint Press, her prose collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs is now available. With Dave Landsberger and Eric Plattner, she comprises one-third of Poems While You Wait, typewritten poetry, composed on demand. With her husband, the writer Martin Seay, she lives in Chicago, where she works as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at DePaul University and where she is the Visiting Writer at Roosevelt University for 2012-2013. With Gold Wake Press, her latest solo poetry collection, Robinson Alone, is forthcoming in October 2012.