Madeline Barnes

Madeleine Barnes is a writer, visual artist, and Ph.D. Candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch College, a recent Research Fellow at The Morgan Library and Museum, and a recent Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellow. She serves as editor-at-large at Cordella Press, a press that showcases the work of women and nonbinary creators. Her debut full-length poetry collection, You Do Not Have To Be Good, was published by Trio House Press in 2020. She is also the author of four chapbooks: The Memory Dictionary (Ethel Press), Women's Work (Tolsun Books), Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press), & The Mark My Body Draws in Light (Finishing Line Press). She has taught creative writing and research courses at New York University and Brooklyn College.

She is the recipient of a John Woods Scholarship, a Cohen Award for Travel, a New York State Summer Writers Institute Fellowship, two Academy of American Poets Poetry Prizes, the Princeton Poetry Prize, the Gertrude Gordon Journalism Prize, and a Lost and Found Grant. She was named an Emerging Writer by the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, and her work was featured in Frontier Poetry's Exceptional Poetry from Around the Web series alongside poetry by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. In 2018 she received a fellowship to attend the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar For Emerging Writers at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Her artwork has been exhibited at venues like The Center for Book Arts, WORK Gallery, Future Tenant, The Frame Gallery, BOOM Concepts, and The Miller Gallery