Sean Madden

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

Lincoln, CA

Bio:

Sean Madden is an analyst at the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky and a BA in English from UC Berkeley. His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in nationally and internationally recognized literary and scholarly journals. He lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills with his wife and sons and is at work on a story collection and a novel.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

Marcel Proust, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Russo, John Banville, Victor LaValle, Elizabeth Taylor, Edward St. Aubyn, Ron Hansen, Chaim Potok, J.F. Powers.

Born in:

San Diego, CA

California

Raised in:

San Diego, CA

California

Website:

http://www.seanmadden.org [2]

Prizes won:

52nd Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Contest (Finalist for "The Growing Terror of Nothing to Think About," 2019).
Luminaire Award for Best Prose (Finalist for “How the Lonesome Engine Drivers Pine,” The Coil, Alternating Current Press, 2018).
Fourth Annual Emerging Writers Prize (Co-recipient, The John Updike Review, 2017).
Tuscany Prize for Catholic Fiction (Finalist for “The Sister’s Inheritance,” 2014).

Education:

University of Kentucky

What I'm reading now:

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any