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Marjorie Maddox Hafer (pen name:  Marjorie Maddox)

mmaddoxh@lhup.edu

Director of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Lock Haven University, Marjorie Maddox has published Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (2004 Yellowglen Prize, WordTech Editions), 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 (1993 Painted Bride Chapbook Winner), and Nightrider To Edinburgh (1986 Amelia Chapbook Winner), as well as over 270 poems and essays in journals and anthologies. Her fiction has appeared in The Sonora Review, The Great Stream Review, Cream City Review, and the anthology Dirt, published by The New Yinzer in Pittsburgh. Her eighth collection is Weeknights At The Cathedral (2006). She is the co-editor, with poet Jerry Wemple, of Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (PSU Press, 2005).  In addition, she has two children's books forthcoming from Boyds Mills Press/WordSong: A Crossing of Zebras (illustrated by Philip Huber), and Rules of the Game: Poems of Baseball.

Marjorie studied with A. R. Ammons, Robert Morgan, Phyllis Janowitz, and Ken McClane at Cornell, where she received the Sage Graduate Fellowship for her M.F.A. in poetry in 1989, and at the University of Louisville with Sena Naslund, where she received an M.A. in English. In addition, she has a B.A. in Literature from Wheaton College.