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Patrick Madden is a Fulbright Fellow, writer, and professor at Brigham Young University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[1][2]

This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. (December 2020)

Madden studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating with a BS in 1993,[1] he served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Uruguay, where he met Karina Cabrera, whom he would later marry.[3] Madden completed his master's degree in English at Brigham Young University in 1999 and his PhD in English at Ohio University in 2004.[1] As a Fulbright fellow, he has twice traveled to Uruguay, where he researched the Tupamaros revolutionaries' record-breaking prison break in 1971.[4][2]

Selected works

• (2020). Disparates.
• (2016). Sublime Physick.
• (2015) with David Lazar (eds.). After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays.
• (2010). Quotidiana (essays).

Awards and honors

Madden is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow.[5]

Awards

• 2008 AML Award (Personal Essay) for "A Sudden Pull Behind the Heart"[6]
• 2010 AML Award (Personal Essay) for Quotidiana[7]
• 2010 Foreword INDIES bronze award for Quotidiana[8]
• 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Quotidiana[9]
• 2016 Foreword INDIES silver medal for Sublime Physick[10]
• 2016 AML Award (Creative Nonfiction) for Sublime Physick[11]
• 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for Sublime Physick[12]

Finalist

• 2011 finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Quotidiana[13]
• 2017 Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award for Sublime Physick[14]
• 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Sublime Physick[15]

References

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