For over 50 years, the Writers Series program at St. Lawrence University has welcomed all varieties of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners. Join us as we welcome Madeline ffitch. The event is free and open to the public.
Madeline ffitch
Madeline ffitch is the author of two novels Avalon, Rise, and Stay and Fight, as well as the story collection, Valparaiso, Round the Horn. Stay and Fight was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Washington State Book Award, and a Lambda Literary Prize. Ffitch co-founded the punk theater company The Missoula Oblongata and was part of the rural direct action collective Appalachia Resist! Her writing has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, N+1, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Creative Capital State of the Art Grant, two O. Henry prizes and was included in the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology. She lives with her two children in the hills of Appalachian Ohio.