Read more
"Poems that face some of the hard questions of life"--
About the author
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University,
Marjorie Maddox has published 16 collections of poetry, a short story collection, four children's and YA books, and 650+ stories, essays, and poems in such journals and anthologies as
Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and
Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion. Assistant editor of
Presence, she hosts WPSU's "Poetry Moment" & has co-edited
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and the forthcoming Keystone. Her numerous honors include Cornell University's Chasen Award, the 2000 Paumanok Poetry Award, an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Seattle Review's Bentley Prize for Poetry, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, Pushcart Prize nominations in both poetry and fiction, and Lock Haven University's 2012 Honors Professor of the Year. She is the great great-niece of baseball legend Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.
