Biography
Office Hours
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Biography
Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016) and Quotidiana (2010). He co-edited After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays (2015) and co-translated the Selected Poems of Eduardo Milán (2012). He has received a Howard Foundation Fellowship and two Fulbright Fellowships. He is co-editor of the 21st Century Essays series at Ohio State University Press, co-editor of the literary journal Fourth Genre, and vice president of the NonfictioNOW Conference.
Degrees
PhD, English, Ohio U, 2004
MA, English, BYU, 1999
BS, physics, Notre Dame, 1993
Interests
Creative Nonfiction, Personal Essay
Websites
Honors and Awards
- AML Award for the Personal Essay, Association for Mormon Letters (2017 - 2017)
- ForeWord Reviews Indiefab Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews (2017 - 2017)
- Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award (2017 - 2017)
- George A and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University (2016 - 2017)
- ForeWord Reviews Indiefab Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews (2016 - 2016)
- Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award (2016 - 2016)
- AML Award for the Personal Essay, Association for Mormon Letters (2011 - 2011)
- ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews (2011 - 2011)
- Independent Publisher Book of the Year Award (2011 - 2011)
- PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction, PEN Center USA (2011 - 2011)
- Utah Book Award, Utah Humanities Council (2011 - 2011)
Professional Citizenship
- Other, NonfictioNOW Conference (2017 - Present)
- Editor, Associate Editor, Ohio State University Press, 21st Century Essays Series (2015 - Present)
- Editor, Associate Editor, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (2014 - Present)
- Board Member, Quarter After Eight (2010 - Present)
- Board Member, Tusculum Review (2010 - Present)
- Board Member, NonfictioNOW Conference (2015 - 2017)