Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Madeleine Barnes (Maddie) is a writer, visual artist, graphic designer, educator, and PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center based in Brooklyn. She attended Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied creative writing and fine art, and she earned her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University in 2016.

The author of one full-length poetry collection and four multimedia chapbooks, she helps curate the Lunar Walk Poetry Series and serves as editor-at-large at Cordella Magazine. She has over a decade of professional industry experience in book publicity, web design, editing, and communications; select roles include Communications Director at the Frame Gallery, Publicity Assistant at Press Shop PR, and Customer Operations Advisor at Squarespace, Inc. in New York City. She currently works as a Creative Communications Specialist at the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.

She is the recipient of fellowships from places like the Center for Book Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Mellon Foundation, and the Jane Marcus Dissertation Year Fund. She has taught and mentored students at NYU, Brooklyn College, Baruch College, and Hunter College.

Her interests in literature, visual communication, research-creation, event curation, archives, and distributing resources drive her professional endeavors. Curious, adaptable, empathetic, and mission-driven, she strives to stay up to date on technology, build collaborations, and use her communication and creative skills to support social justice causes. She is most fulfilled when teaching skills, co-creating events, helping people reflect on what gives their lives meaning, and advocating for political causes through writing, embroidery, art, and design.