Ed Madden

Ed Madden is Professor of English and former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of six books of poetry, most recently A pooka in Arkansas, the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection winner, and A story of the city, a collection of poems from his 8 years as the Columbia SC poet laureate. He served as poet laureate of Columbia, SC, 2015-2022. He received a Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 2019. He is recipient of artist residencies at the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica, Brazil, and the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts in Georgia. He is also recipient of the South Carolina Governor’s Award for the Arts and the University of South Carolina’s Breakthrough Leadership in Research Award, commended for his attention to marginalized voices.