The Memory Dictionary

by

Madeleine Barnes

Madeleine Barnes is a writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch College. Her debut full-length poetry collection, You Do Not Have To Be Good, was published by Trio House Press in 2020. She is also the author of Women’s Work (Tolsun Books, 2021), Light Experiments (Porkbelly Press, 2019), and The Mark My Body Draws in Light (Finishing Line Press, 2014). Her work has been featured in places like The Poetry Society of America: In Their Own Words, Pleiades, PANK, Split Lip Magazine, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Prelude, The Brooklyn Review, and Plume Poetry: 10. Her poetry was featured in Frontier Poetry’s “Exceptional Poetry From Around The Web” series alongside poetry by Tracy K. Smith. She is the recipient of fellowships from The Morgan Library & Museum, the PublicsLab at the Graduate Center, and the Center for Book Arts. She serves as editor-at-large at Cordella Press. | madeleinebarnes.com

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