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Madeleine Cravens is the author of the poetry collection Pleasure Principle (Scribner, 2024). Her poems can be found in The New Yorker, The Nation, Kenyon Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.

Madeleine was a 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She received her M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was a Max Ritvo Poetry Fellow. She has been the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. She was raised in Brooklyn and currently lives in Oakland.

Madeleine is represented by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ.