Marjorie Maddox

For a list of my books, reviews, awards, and upcoming events, please see http://community.lhup.edu/mmaddoxh/biography.htm

Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013); Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech Editions 2006); Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize); Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award; reissued as an ebook in 2013); When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Prize); five chapbooks, and over 400 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. 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 The 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 Leapfrog Press’s book competition, Eastern Washington University’s Spokane Fiction Book Award, Black Lawrence Press' Hudson Prize, and Louisiana University Press’s Yellow Shoe Book Award. The recipient of numerous honors, including a Sage Graduate Fellowship from Cornell University (MFA) and Pushcart Prize nominations in poetry and fiction, Marjorie lives with her husband and two children in Williamsport, PA. The great grandniece of Branch Rickey, the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, she gives readings and school visits around the country.