Patrick Madden (essayist) explained

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

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]

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 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award for Sublime Physick^[14]
• 2017 15 Bytes Book Award for Sublime Physick^[15]

Notes and References

1. https://humanities.byu.edu/person/patrick-madden/ "Patrick Madden"
2. Web site: Patrick Madden. 2020-11-09. Vermont College of Fine Arts. en-US.
3. Madden. Patrick. 2001. In My Life. The Mochila Review. 2.
4. Web site: Patrick Madden Fulbright Scholar Program. 2020-11-13. www.cies.org.
5. Web site: George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Howard Foundation Brown University . www.brown.edu.
6. Web site: AML Awards 2008. 2020-11-13. associationmormonletters.org.
7. Web site: AML Awards 2010. 2020-11-13. associationmormonletters.org.
8. Web site: Quotidiana . 2020-11-13. www.forewordreviews.com. en.
9. Web site: 2011 Medalists. 2020-11-13. www.ippyawards.com.
10. Web site: 2016 Foreword INDIES Winners in Essays (Adult Nonfiction). 2020-11-13. www.forewordreviews.com. en.
11. Web site: 23 April 2017. AML Awards 2016. 2020-11-13. associationmormonletters.org.
12. Web site: 2017 Medalists. 2020-11-13. www.ippyawards.com.
13. Web site: univnebpress. 2011-09-01. The PEN Center USA literary awards. 2020-11-13. UNP blog. en.
14. Web site: Firecracker Awards Winners Archive. 2020-11-13. Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. en-US.
15. Web site: Pace. David G.. 2017-09-02. 2017 15 Bytes Book Award: Creative Nonfiction Finalists. 2020-11-13. Artists of Utah's 15 Bytes. en-US.