Madeleine Cravens

Bio

Madeleine Cravens is the author of the poetry collection Pleasure Principle (Scribner, 2024). She was a 2022-20224 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University, where she was a Max Ritvo Poetry Fellow. Her poems can be found in The New Yorker, The Nation, Best New Poets, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. Madeleine was raised in Brooklyn and currently lives in Oakland.