Madeleine Barnes is a poet, visual artist, and Ph.D. fellow in English Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her debut full-length poetry manuscript, You Do Not Have To Be Good,was selected as a winner of Trio House Press' open reading period and will be published in 2020. She is the author of three chapbooks, including Women’s Work, forthcoming from Tolsun Books; Light Experiments, Porkbelly Press’ first ever zine-style photo chapbook (2019); and The Mark My Body Draws in Light (Finishing Line Press, 2013). Since 2016, she has served as Poetry Editor at Cordella Magazine,a publication that showcases the work of women and non-binary writers and artists.

She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, and she co-curates the Lunar Walk Poetry Series in Manhattan. Named an emerging writer by the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, she is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets poetry prizes, the Princeton Poetry Prize, the Gertrude Gordon Journalism Prize, and the Three Rivers Review Poetry Prize. A Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week, she teaches at Brooklyn College.

She is the recipient of a John Woods Scholarship to study poetry in the Czech Republic, a New York State Summer Writers Institute Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, the Gertude Gordon Journalism Prize, the Three Rivers Review Poetry Prize, and numerous design awards, including first place in the Looking Glass Magazine cover design contest. Her artwork has appeared in the PhilaMOCA Gallery in Philadelphia, PA, The Miller Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA, WORK Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Groundfloor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.