Madeleine Mysko's work, both poetry and prose, has been published in such venues as The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Commonweal, River Styx, The Christian Century, and The Baltimore Sun. A graduate of The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University, she teaches creative writing both privately and in the Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs. She is also a registered nurse with experience in Assisted living. Among her awards are two Individual Artist grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and an Artscape Prize for Fiction from the City of Baltimore. 

                                                              
                                                                  Photo by Miriam Berkley



Bringing Vincent Home: a novel  (Plain View Press) 

"For love of God and Country"  ( Susan McCallum-Smith ,Urbanite)  (scroll down to Books section)

Review NYU Literature, Arts, and Medicine

"So why not a memoir, just the facts, ma'am?"  (Rafael Alvarez, The Baltimore Examiner)

"Rarely does a book of any sort touch me as this one did," writes National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien. "Though a novel, Bringing Vincent Home reads like the finest memoir, so authentic and convincing that at times I found myself turning back to the title page to be sure it was a work of fiction."  

Listen to Jan 25 Interview with Tom Hall on WYPR Baltimore






For Release in May 2008:
Crucial Blue: a poetry collection (Rager Media, Inc.)
   
Words of praise from reviewer Elizabeth Spires:

"Madeleine Mysko's subject in this fine, fluent first collection is no less than a thorough examination of the signifcant moments of everyday life . . . An acute observer of both nature and human nature, Mysko desires to 'reach deep,' and in doing so, invites the reader to enter a world made whole and sacred by her penetrating eye and practiced heart.  There is a striking, unforced reverence here for all aspects of the human, and a lucidity reminiscent of Philip Larkin."

Listen to Apr 18 Interview with Lara Jones on KCPW  Salt Lake City
                                                                




2008 Calendar:

Fri May 9             BVH Reading at Monkey Wrench Books  Austin
Thurs May 8         BVH Reading, Briscoe Library (UTHSCSA) San Antonio
Wed May 7           BVH Signing at The Twig Book Store  San Antonio
Wed May 7           BVH Reading, School of Nursing (UTHSCSA) San Antonio

Fri Apr 25             BVH Reading at Johns Hopkins University 
Wed Apr 23           BVH Reading at RPCS Kaleidoscope 
Thurs Apr 17         BVH&Crucial Blue Reading at Utah Valley State College
Fri  Apr 18            Crucial Blue Reading at Westminster College 
Thurs Apr 3           BVH Reading at Towson University

Sat Mar 8             BVH Signing at Greetings & Readings 

Sat Feb 2             Poetry Reading at The Bowery Poetry Club

Thurs Jan31          BVH Signing at the AWP Conf NYC
Sat Jan 26            BVH Signing at Ivy Bookshop
Sat Jan 19             BVH Reading at Minas Gallery
Tues Jan 1                Poetry Reading at Creative Alliance



Contact: mmysko@comcast.net

Publicist: kristen titus communications