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Marjorie Maddox

Author's Bio

For a list of my books, reviews, awards, and upcoming events, please see http://www.lhup.edu/mmaddoxh/ Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award); Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (WordTech Editions); Weeknights at the Cathedral (Yellowglen Prize); When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (Redgreene Press); six chapbooks, and over 350 poems, stories, and essays in such journals and anthologies as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, American Literary Review, US Catholic, Art Times, Arabesque: International Literary Journal, Seattle Review, Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, A Fine Frenzy: Poets on Shakespeare, Hurricane Blues. She is the co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (PSU Press 2005) and author of two children’s books from Boyds Mills Press: A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (2008) and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (2009). Her short story collection, What She Was Saying, was one of three finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Book Award, and a semifinalist for Eastern Washington University’s Spokane Fiction Book Award and Louisiana University Press’s Yellow Shoe Book Award. The recipient of numerous awards, Marjorie lives with her husband and two children in Williamsport, PA. She gives readings and school visits around the country.

Publications and Prizes

Books:
Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (Boyds Mills Press, 2009), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (Boyds Mills Press, 2008), Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech Editions, 2006), Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (WordTech Editions, 2005), Perpendicular As I (Author's Guild Backinprint.com Edition, 2003), When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (Redgreene Press, 2001), Body Parts (Anamnesis Press, 1999), Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press, 1997), Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Press, 1995), How to Fit God Into a Poem (Painted Bride Quarterly, 1993), Nightrider to Edinburgh (Amelia Press, 1986)
Anthologies:
A Fine Excess: Contemporary Literature at Play (Sarabande Books, 2010), Dirt: An Anthology (New Yinzer, 2010), Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow! Press, 2009), Broken Lane: Poems of Brooklyn (New York University Press, 2007), Hey You! Poems to Skyscrapers, Mosquitoes, and Other Fun Things (Harper Collins, 2007), A Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets on Shakespeare (University of Iowa Press, 2005), Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (co-editor w/ J Wemple) (PSU Press, 2005), Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places (John Gordon Burke Publications, 1999), Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor Book Company, 1985), Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry (Monitor Book Company, 1985)
Journals:
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, American Literary Review, Anglican Theological Review, Arabesques Review, Art Times, Birmingham Poetry Review, Blueline, Christianity and Literature, College English, Comstock Review, Confrontation, Crab Orchard Review, Ellipsis, First Things, Fourth River, Harper's Ferry, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Isotope: Journal of Nature and Science Writing, Kansas Quarterly, Midway Journal, New Letters, Northeast Corridor, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pavement Saw, Poetry Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Runes: A Review of Poetry, So to Speak, Sonora Review, Tamaqua, The Laurel Review, The Louisville Review, The Other Journal, The Southern Quarterly, The Women's Review of Books, US Catholic, Watershed, Wisconsin Review, Yarrow
Prizes:
Please see http://www.lhup.edu/mmaddoxh/ Numerous honors include Cornell University’s Chasen Award, the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Seattle Review’s Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Breadloaf Scholarship, and four Pushcart Prize nominations.

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the listed writers or their representatives.
Listing last updated: August 6, 2009

More Information

Listed as:
Fiction Writer, Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Prefers to work with:
Any
Fluent in:
English
Born in:
Columbus, OH
Raised in:
Columbus, OH
Agent:
Jason Allen Ashlock

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