Sean Madden

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

Lincoln, CA

Bio:

Sean Madden works for 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:

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

Prizes won:

Pushcart Prize (Nominated by The Emerson Review for "Note for Inspector," 2022).
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:

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

Collected Poems: 1953-1993 by John Updike

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any