Madeline Ffitch

Madeline ffitch is the author of the short story collection Valparaiso, Round the Horn and the novel Stay and Fight, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, the LA Times Book Award, and was the 2023 Ohio Center for the Book pick for the National Book Festival. 

Madeline has been awarded two O. Henry prizes, in 2024 and 2025, and her story "Seeing Through Maps" was chosen for the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology. 

She has received fellowships from Yaddo, UCross, Blue Mountain Center, and Macdowell, and was writer in residence at the Carolyn Moore Writer's House. Madeline is a recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital State of the Art Prize.

Her second novel Avalon, Rise, will be out on Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2026. A new collection of short fiction, Stump of the World, will follow in 2027. 

Madeline lives in the hills of Appalachian, Ohio with her two children.