Patrick Madden (essayist)
Patrick Madden is a Fulbright Fellow, writer, and professor at Brigham Young University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[1][2]
Madden studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating with a BS in 1993,[1] he served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Uruguay, where he met Karina Cabrera, whom he would later marry.[3] Madden completed his master's degree in English at Brigham Young University in 1999 and his PhD in English at Ohio University in 2004.[1] As a Fulbright fellow, he has twice traveled to Uruguay, where he researched the Tupamaros revolutionaries' record-breaking prison break in 1971.[4][2]
Selected works
[edit]- (2020). Disparates.
- (2016). Sublime Physick.
- (2015) with David Lazar (eds.). After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays.
- (2010). Quotidiana (essays).
Awards and honors
[edit]Madden is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow.[5]
Awards
[edit]- 2008 AML Award (Personal Essay) for "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart"[6]
- 2010 AML Award (Personal Essay) for Quotidiana[7]
- 2010 Foreword INDIES bronze award for Quotidiana[8]
- 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Quotidiana[9]
- 2016 Foreword INDIES silver medal for Sublime Physick[10]
- 2016 AML Award (Creative Nonfiction) for Sublime Physick[11]
- 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Sublime Physick[12]
Finalist
[edit]- 2011 finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Quotidiana[13]
- 2017 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award for Sublime Physick[14]
- 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Sublime Physick[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Patrick Madden". Brigham Young University.
- ^ a b "Patrick Madden". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Madden, Patrick (2001). "In My Life" (PDF). The Mochila Review. 2.
- ^ "Patrick Madden | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation | Howard Foundation | Brown University". www.brown.edu.
- ^ "AML Awards 2008". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "AML Awards 2010". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "Quotidiana". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "2011 Medalists". www.ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "2016 Foreword INDIES Winners in Essays (Adult Nonfiction)". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "AML Awards 2016". associationmormonletters.org. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "2017 Medalists". www.ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ univnebpress (2011-09-01). "The PEN Center USA literary awards". UNP blog. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ "Firecracker Awards Winners Archive". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
- ^ Pace, David G. (2017-09-02). "2017 15 Bytes Book Award: Creative Nonfiction Finalists". Artists of Utah's 15 Bytes. Retrieved 2020-11-13.