Perpendicular As I

Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Local News from Someplace Else, Weeknights at the Cathedral, Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize), Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Poetry Book Award), When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner), Body Parts, Ecclesia, How to Fit God into a Poem (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner); and Nightrider to Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as over 400 poems, stories, and essays in such journals and anthologies as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, and Image: Journal of the Arts and Religion.

Co-editor with Jerry Wemple of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania, she has two children's books A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems. She is the great grandniece of baseball legend Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson.

Marjorie studied with A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Phyllis Janowitz, and Ken McClane at Cornell, where she received the Sage Graduate Fellowship for her MFA in poetry; with Sena Jeter Naslund at the University of Louisville, where she received an MA in English; and with Beatrice Batson and Harold Fickett at Wheaton College, where she received a BA in Literature.

Her numerous honors include Cornell University's Chasen Award, the Paumanok Poetry Award in 2000, 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. For more information, please see http://community.lhup.edu/mmaddoxh/biography.htm.