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Kathleen Rooney: A Chicago Author and Flaneuse Whose Love of Walking Helps to Shape Her Writing

Kathleen Rooney: A Chicago Author and Flaneuse Whose Love of Walking Helps to Shape Her Writing

Update: 2025-07-18
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Kathleen Rooney is an author and a self-described flaneuse who loves to explore Chicago and other cities on foot. She is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, a nonprofit publisher, as well as a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a team of poets and their typewriters who compose commissioned poetry on demand. Kathleen teaches in the English Department at DePaul University, and her recent books include the national best-seller Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and the novel Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

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Kathleen Rooney: A Chicago Author and Flaneuse Whose Love of Walking Helps to Shape Her Writing

Kathleen Rooney: A Chicago Author and Flaneuse Whose Love of Walking Helps to Shape Her Writing

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