The English Department’s Visiting Writers Series invites you to an evening with editor, poet, and author Kathleen Rooney on November 20th at 7:30 PM in Bracken Library 104. For more information on Kathleen Rooney and her career, read the post below.

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal press, a nonprofit publisher of literary work in hybrid genres, as well as a member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. She is the author of six books of poetry and nonfiction including, most recently, the novel in poems Robinson Alone (Gold Wake Press), based on the life and work of Weldon Kees, the essay collection For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs (Counterpoint, 2010), and the art modeling memoir Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (University of Arkansas Press, 2009).