My name is Madeline and I write fantasy.
I’ve been in love with the genre since I was a very small child, when my dad read The Hobbit to my sister and me as a bedtime story. I grew up reading voraciously, got two English degrees (one with an emphasis in medieval literature and the other with a focus on education), married a history teacher, and finally, after many false starts, started to seriously write.
When I’m not reading and/or writing, I have been known to bike, knit and crochet, watch terrible movies, and play video games. I am also an avid player of tabletop role-playing games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Genesys, Edge of the Empire, Call of Cthulhu, and World of Darkness.
I’m interested in stories and how they are told, literacy and orality, manuscript cultures, folklore and mythology, religious syncretism, and the evolution of language; you might notice these themes coming through in my writing. I also have a fondness for romance and epic quests to save the world.
She/her pronouns are fine.
I live in Wisconsin with my husband and a cat.
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