Professor Emerita of English at the Lock Haven campus of Commonwealth University, Marjorie Maddox has published 17 collections of poetry—including How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled? Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks (Kelsay Books); Seeing Things (Wildhouse); and Hover Here (Broadstone, forthcoming), as well as the ekphrastic collaborations Small Earthly Space; Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (both with Karen Elias) and In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind (with daughter Anna Lee Hafer www.hafer.work, a 2023 Dragonfly Book Award in photography/fine arts and American Fiction Winner Award in poetry) and others. 

In addition, she has published the story collection  What She Was Saying (Fomite Press); 4 children’s and YA books—including  Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises: (Kelsay Books, Finalist International Book Awards), A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry; (Boyd Mills Press/Wipf & Stock), I’m Feeling Blue, Too! (Wipf & Stock, a 2021 NCTE Notable Poetry Book), and Rules of the Game: Baseball Poems (Boyd Mills Press/Wipf & Stock). 

She is the assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry and the co-editor of two anthologies from Pennsylvania State University Press: Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2005) and Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2025). She hosts Poetry Moment for WPSU-FM. The recipient of numerous awards, she gives readings and workshops around the world. For more information, please see www.marjoriemaddox.com