Maddox K. Pennington (they/he) received their MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. Their debut bibliomemoir, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work, was released May 2017 by Hachette. Previous writing has appeared on Electric Literature, The Toast, and The American Scholar online; they’ve performed at DC Nerd Nite, FemX Improvised Monologues, the DC Drafthouse, the DC LGBTQ Comedy Festival, Joe's Movement Emporium, and other comedy venues. After teaching college and creative writing in Washington DC, they moved to Los Angeles to join the writing faculty at the University of Southern California.
Their work has been developed, read, and performed as part of the "Bucharest Inside the Beltway" residency, the Moving Arts MADLab...
Maddox K. Pennington (they/he) received their MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. Their debut bibliomemoir, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work, was released May 2017 by Hachette. Previous writing has appeared on Electric Literature, The Toast, and The American Scholar online; they’ve performed at DC Nerd Nite, FemX Improvised Monologues, the DC Drafthouse, the DC LGBTQ Comedy Festival, Joe's Movement Emporium, and other comedy venues. After teaching college and creative writing in Washington DC, they moved to Los Angeles to join the writing faculty at the University of Southern California.
Their work has been developed, read, and performed as part of the "Bucharest Inside the Beltway" residency, the Moving Arts MADLab First Look series, the Theater Viscera podcast, the Virtual Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and the Autry Museum of the American West's 13th Annual Native Voices Short Play Festival.