Marjorie Maddox

Poet Marjorie MaddoxDirector of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Perpendicular As I; Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation; Weeknights at the Cathedral; When the Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems; six chapbooks, and over 350 poems, stories, and essays in journals and anthologies. She is the co-editor of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and author of two children’s books from Boyds Mills Press. Her short story collection, What She Was Saying, was one of three finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Book Award and a semifinalist for the Leapfrog and Spokane book awards. Her aunt was an artist and her father a photographer, so she loves collaborating with other artists. For more info and reviews, please see http://www.lhup.edu/mmaddoxh/biography.htm