Anne Marie Rooney was born and raised in New York City. She currently lives in Baltimore.
She is the author of No Beautiful and Spitshine. She has also created a commissioned artist’s book, Weather, Ritual, Black Stars, and written two chapbooks: The Buff, and Shell of an egg in an effort.
She has won the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, the Amy Award, the Greg Grummer Poetry Award, the So to Speak Poetry Prize, and the Tupelo Broadside Prize.
Her writing has been featured on Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, Lambda Literary, The Feminist Wire, and The Awl, as well as in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies.
You can read more of her poetry online at Poetry, Poor Claudia, The Spectacle, The Journal, Typo, Narrative, Better, Sixth Finch, DIAGRAM, Devil’s Lake, 30 x Lace, Quarterly West, PANK, Loaded Bicycle, Witness, Leveler, and alice blue; and some fiction at summer stock, elsewhere, Projector, and The Cupboard.
She is ½ of LORRAINE and 1/6 of Line Assembly. She is also collaborating with her sister, the painter Julia Rooney, as well as the poet and filmmaker Ben Pelhan.
Anne Marie loves writing postcards. If you send her your address, she’ll send you a thing.