Patrick Madden

Patrick Madden is a Fulbright Fellow, writer, and professor at Brigham Young University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Madden studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating with a BS in 1993, Madden completed his master's degree in English at Brigham Young University in 1999 and his PhD in English at Ohio University in 2004.

Awards 2008 AML Award (Personal Essay) for "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart" 2010 AML Award (Personal Essay) for Quotidiana 2010 Foreword INDIES bronze award for Quotidiana 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Quotidiana 2016 Foreword INDIES silver medal for Sublime Physick 2016 AML Award (Creative Nonfiction) for Sublime Physick 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Sublime Physick

Finalist 2011 finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Quotidiana 2017 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award for Sublime Physick 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Sublime Physick