Tucson Festival of Books

Maddie Norris (She/Her)



Derick Decario Ladale Whitson

Maddie Norris, author of "The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays," earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and, before that, she was the Thomas Wolfe Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her essays have won the Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction from Ninth Letter and been named Notable in Best American Essays 2020 and 2022. Her work can be found in Guernica, Fourth Genre, and Territory, among others. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Davidson College.

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Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan


Book:
The Wet Wound
An Elegy in Essays
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
University of Georgia Press
March 2024
ISBN 9780820366685
192 pages