Baker Artist Portfolios

Anne Marie Rooney is a poet and artist living in Baltimore. She is the author of No Beautiful (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018) and Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012), as well as two chapbooks. Her poetry has been twice featured in the Best American Poetry anthology, and has been the recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, the Amy Award, the Freund Prize, and others. With the artist and game designer Sam Sheffield, she creates poetic games as LORRAINE. She curates “Poem on the Radio,” a bi-weekly discussion of a single poem, on WGDR’s “Still Life with Club Soda.” Since 2011, she has been collaborating with Julia Rooney, using the U.S. Postal Service as a medium for art production, distribution, and exhibition.