Ritual Loss (forthcoming from Omnidawn, 2026)
chosen by Desirée Alvarez as winner of the 2024 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize
“When a sound wave has enough intensity, it becomes luminous. Ritual Loss conjurs a new lyric country that illuminates the heart. “Every time you mend the thing you show it what you think of it”. There’s a poem in the collection called “Contagious Magic” and that’s what these poems are—to be read without stirring, mesmerized.”
—Desirée Alvarez, Judge's Citation
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & HONORS
POETRY & TRANSLATIONS
-Massachusetts Review, “The Regime of Truth,” “Shameproof,” Forthcoming
-Bennington Review, “Ritual Loss” and “Contagious Magic,” Issue 13, “Family Gathering,” 2024
-PANK, “Sympathetic Magic” and “Letter to/from the Diaspora,” 18.1, Spring, 2023
-Beloit Poetry Journal, “Work[ers] Song,” Vol. 72 No. 2, Fall/Winter, 2022
-Interim, “Song for Panic as Agitated Stardust,” “Lore for Hurricane Season,” “Song for the Unrescued Floating in Bliss, Vol. 39, Issue 2, Summer 2022
-The Stinging Fly, “Ode to the Marriage and the Divorce,” Issue 43, Winter, 2020-2021
-Public Poetry, “Shadow Work,” Work Issue, 2018
-The Southwest Anthology: The Best of the Writing Programs, “The Start,” 2017
-Nimrod International Journal, “New Now,” “Easy to Hide,” “The Start,” Winter, Issue 38, 2016
-World Literature Today, Translations of “Two Poems by Ming Di,” April, 2016
-Witch Craft Magazine, “A Charm of Jet Feathers to Keep me from Drowning,” Issue 2, March 2016
-Read America(s), “Two Translations of Graça Graúna and of Briceda Cuevas Cob,” 2016
-Yalobusha Review, “In the Great Basin,” “You Get One Plum Heart,” Issue 22, 2015
-Souvenir, “Porcupine Stew” Summer, 2015
-Read Women: An Anthology, “Two Translations of Irish Poet, Áine Ní Ghlinn,” 2014
-Cactus Heart, “Getting Out” Issue 8, 2014
-Town Creek Poetry, “Binding” Spring, 2013
PROSE
-“Hidden in Plain Sight: Attending to women's amateur filmmaking histories at the Irish Film Archive,” Sarah Arnold and
Carolann Madden, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2023, Vol. 43, Issue 4.
-“Wet Nurse to na Daoine Maithe: 19th Century Breastfeeding and the Otherworld,”
in Birth and the Irish: A Miscellany, ed. Salvador Ryan. Dublin: Wordwell Press,
November, 2021
-Review of Jennifer Grotz “Window Left Open” Gulf Coast
-Interview with poet, Jessica Piazza, for Locked Horn Press Spotlight, 2015
- “Christine Andrea Caviglia,” in Women in Clothes eds. Sheila Heti,
Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton (Penguin, 2014)
RELATED HONORS
-Winner of the 2024 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize, judged by Desirée Alvarez, 2024
-Ploughshares Emerging Writer runner-up for “At the Mass Stranding I Decide,” 2021
-Finalist, Omnidawn Broadside Poetry Prize, judged by Victoria S. Cheng, 2020
-Longlist Palette Poetry Emerging Poets Prize, 2020
-Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Houston: NUI Galway Archival Research, 2020
-Winner Inprint Verlaine Prize for Poetry, judged by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, 2019
-Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Houston: American Folklore Society Conference, 2019
-Finalist Iowa Review Awards, Poetry, 2019
-Fulbright recipient to Galway, Ireland, 2018-2019
-Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Houston: American Folklore Society Conference, 2017
-Creative Writing Fellowship from University of Houston: American Conference for Irish Studies, 2017
-Finalist Public Poetry “Work” contest, 2017
-Finalist Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod International Journal, 2016
-University of Houston Presidential Fellowship, 2015
-Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/Fondren Foundation Fellowship, 2015
-Queen's University Belfast, Seamus Heaney Centre's Poetry Summer School, 2014
-Finalist in Poetry for the New South Annual Writing Contest, 2013
-Finalist in River Styx International Poetry Contest, 2012
-Honorable Mention in Poetry for University of New Orleans Writing Contest, 2011
MISC
-Graduate Student Spotlight on Carolann Madden, in Forum, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2019
-Small tapestry work for Jim Hokett.