Madeline Stevens

Madeline Stevens is a writer from Boring, Oregon currently based in Los Angeles. Her first novel Devotion was released from Ecco Press in 2019. Devotion was also published by Faber & Faber in the UK and translated into six languages. Madeline holds an MFA from Columbia University and her stories and essays have been published in places such as The Guardian, CrimeReads, and Monkeybicycle. She teaches creative writing to adults and children through Catapult and Writopia Lab.

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