About

Madeleine Barnes is a writer, visual artist, Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellow, and Fellow at The Morgan Library and Museum working in the Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts. An English PhD candidate at The Graduate Center, CUNY, she serves as Poetry Editor at Cordella Press, and co-curates the Lunar Walk Poetry Series. Her debut full-length poetry collection, You Do Not Have To Be Good, was published by Trio House Press in 2020. She is the author of Women’s Work (Tolsun Books, 2021), Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press, 2019), and The Mark My Body Draws in Light (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She is the recipient of a John Woods Scholarship to study poetry in the Czech Republic, 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 Light Relief Grant. She was named an Emerging Writer by the Poetry Ireland Introduction Series, and her criticism has appeared in places like FENCE, Split Lip Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and Glass Poetry.