Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation

Marjorie Maddox is Professor Emerita of English and creative writing at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University. She earned a BA at Wheaton College, an MA at the University of Louisville and an MFA in poetry at Cornell, where she studied with A.R. Ammons. She won the Sandstone Book Award for Perpendicular As I, the Yellowglen Prize for Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation and, in 2019, the Foley Poetry Prize from America magazine. She writes for children too, among them A Crossing of Zebras and Rules of the Game, edits for Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and has hosted WPSU's Poetry Moment. She lives in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.