Vermont College of Fine Arts

PATRICK MADDEN (CNF) is the author of Quotidiana (Nebraska, 2010). His personal and travel essays have appeared in Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, the Iowa Review, Portland Magazine, River Teeth, and other journals, as well as in the Best Creative Nonfiction and Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Notre Dame and his PhD in creative nonfiction from Ohio University. During his doctoral studies, he lived in Montevideo, Uruguay, with a Fulbright Fellowship, which allowed him to investigate Uruguayan culture and history, and interview former Tupamaro revolutionaries for an essay about their 1971 Guinness World Record prison escape. In fall 2012, he returned to Uruguay with another Fulbright to finish his second book of personal and science essays (Sublime Physick, forthcoming) on middles, originality, empathy, fleeting time, last events, consciousness, coincidence, and other subjects. He teaches at Brigham Young University in Utah and edits an anthology of classical essays and essay resources at http://quotidiana.org/.