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
  • (2020). Disparates.
  • (2016). Sublime Physick.
  • (2015) with David Lazar (eds.). After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays.
  • (2010). Quotidiana (essays).

Awards and honors

Madden is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow.[5]

Awards
  • 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

References
  1. "Patrick Madden". Brigham Young University.
  2. "Patrick Madden". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  3. Madden, Patrick (2001). "In My Life" (PDF). The Mochila Review. 2.
  4. "Patrick Madden | Fulbright Scholar Program". www.cies.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  5. "George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation | Howard Foundation | Brown University". www.brown.edu.
  6. "AML Awards 2008". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  7. "AML Awards 2010". associationmormonletters.org. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  8. "Quotidiana". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  9. "2011 Medalists". www.ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  10. "2016 Foreword INDIES Winners in Essays (Adult Nonfiction)". www.forewordreviews.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  11. "AML Awards 2016". associationmormonletters.org. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  12. "2017 Medalists". www.ippyawards.com. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  13. univnebpress (2011-09-01). "The PEN Center USA literary awards". UNP blog. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  14. "Firecracker Awards Winners Archive". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
  15. Pace, David G. (2017-09-02). "2017 15 Bytes Book Award: Creative Nonfiction Finalists". Artists of Utah's 15 Bytes. Retrieved 2020-11-13.
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