Heather Madden

Biography
Heather Madden, visiting assistant professor of creative writing, received an M.F.A in Poetry from Indiana University, an M.A. in English from New Mexico State University, and a B.A. in English from Mansfield University. She is a contributing editor to Salamanader (a journal of fiction, poetry, and memoir). In the past, she has read for Ploughshares, the Indiana Review and Puerto del Sol, worked as a writer-in-the-schools in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and organized a visiting writers program for DYS students in rural Pennsylvania. She has taught courses in poetry, fiction, literature, and composition for more than fifteen years.

OFFICE HOURS
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Fall 2012
IA-0210 Micro-fiction Workshop for Third-Semester Students

IA-0289 Long Poem and Lyric Essay Workshop

Fall 2010
IA-0255-1 Ekphrasis: A Poetry Workshop

Spring 2010
IA-0286-1 Poetry Workshop

Fall 2009
IA-0267-1 Micro-fictions Workshop

Spring 2009
IA-0128-1 Fiction Workshop: First Person Narrative(s)

Fall 2008
IA-0283-1 Cross Training: A Poetry Workshop

View course description here: Cross Training: A Poetry Workshop

Spring 2008
IA-0255-1 Poetry Workshop: Writing Poems about Visual Art (aka Ekphr)

Fall 2007
IA-0286-1 Whatnot in the Speech-Grille (a poetry workshop) 

Past students:
Gregory Bothwell

Margaret Hart

Emily Lawson

Genna Rose Nethercott

Lisa Profeta

Amanda Theissen

Samuel Adams

Rachael Handler

Rachel Kass

Sarah Marshall

Charles Pope

Joshua Schneider

Meredith Eudy

Christine Manning

Ariana Misfeldt

Peter Smith

Areas of Interest
Heather's areas of interest include contemporary poetry/poetics; critical/liberation pedagogies; cross-genre literature (prose/lyric essay/micro-fiction); interdisciplinary literature/art; public art, collage, and installation; ekphrasis; periodical literature; Victorian/Romantic women's writing; and composition and rhetorical analysis.

Current Projects
Heather has recently completed a manuscript of poems, which she is circulating for publication.