Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, 2023 Monson Arts Fellow, a poetry editor of Presence, and radio host of WPSU-FM’’s Poetry Moment, Marjorie Maddox has published seventeen collections of poetry, including Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize, one of three finalists Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes; re-release Wipf & Stock 2018, 2020 Philip H. McMath Post-Publication Book Award); True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry Series and Illumination Book Award Medalist); Wives’ Tales (Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series); Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013); a 2013 ebook of Perpendicular As I ; print version of Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award); Weeknights at the Cathedral (WordTech 2006); When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner); Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999); Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press, 1997); How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as over 700 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. Her poem, “Arise,” about the Thailand cave rescue, was awarded the 2019 Foley Poetry Prize by America Magazine (1st out of 1,200 entries).
