Marjorie Maddox Hafer

Education

• Cornell University, MFA (Sage Graduate Fellowship)
• University of Louisville, MA in English
• Wheaton College, BA in Literature

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Courses Developed

• Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
• Our Own: Pennsylvania Authors
• Modern Poetry
• Four Poets: Moore, Bishop, Plath, Sexton 

Programs Developed

• Pennsylvania Authors Reading Series
• UpWrite Reading Series, which emphasizes diversity from a number of different angles
• WriteNow: Community Conversations with Contemporary Authors

Research Areas

• Modern and Contemporary Literature
• Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, children’s literature)
• Pedagogy
• Pennsylvania Literature
• Sports Literature
• Children’s Literature

Books Published

• Eleven collections of poetry, a short story collection, and four children’s books, and co-editor of an anthology
• What She Was Saying (Fomite Press 2017, short stories)
• Wives' Tales (Seven Kitchens' Press Editors' Series 2017)
• A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball's Great Experiment (Zing! Schoolwide 2017, middle-grade biography)
• Inside Out: Poems on Writing Poems with Insider Exercises (Zing! Schoolwide 20017, middle-grade mentor book)
• True, False, None of the Above (Poiema Poetry Series 2016, Cascade Books; Illumination Book Award Medalist in Education)
• Co-editor, with Jerry Wemple, of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005)
• Local News from Someplace Else (Wipf & Stock 2013)
• Weeknights At The Cathedral (an Editions Selection 2006)
• Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize)
• Perpendicular As I (1994 Sandstone Book Award)
• When The Wood Clacks Out Your Name: Baseball Poems (2001 Redgreene Press Chapbook Winner)
• Body Parts (Anamnesis Press 1999)
• Ecclesia (Franciscan University Press 1997)
• How to Fit God into a Poem (Painted Bride Contest Winner)
• Nightrider to Edinburgh (Amelia Contest Winner 1986)
• Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State Press 2005), co-editor with poet Jerry Wemple
• A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry (WordSong 2008)
• Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (WordSong 2009). 

Articles Published

Over 500 poems, stories, and creative and scholarly essays published in national literary journals, magazines, anthologies, and newspapers.

In the News

Poetry Moment: Marjorie Maddox and 'The Difference Between Women and Men'