Madeleine Mysko

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Madeleine Mysko

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  • Home
  • Crucial Blue
  • In The Margins
  • Stone Harbor Bound
  • Bringing Vincent Home
  • On Nursing
  • Short Fiction
  • Essays
  • Opinion Pieces

About

  

Madeleine Mysko is the author of two novels, Bringing Vincent Home (Plain View Press, 2007) and Stone Harbor Bound (Bridle Path Press, 2015), and a poetry collection, Crucial Blue, (Cherry Grove Collections, 2019).


Her poetry, reviews, essays, and short fiction have been published widely in literary journals that include Shenandoah, Commonweal, Presence, River Styx, and The Hudson Review. As a peace and justice activist, she has also contributed op-ed pieces to venues including The Baltimore Sun and The Veteran.


Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Madeleine Mysko attended parochial schools and graduated from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in 1967. During the Vietnam War, she served in the Army Nurse Corps on the famous burn ward of Brooke Army Medical Center, an experience out of which she later wrote her first novel, Bringing Vincent Home. When she later returned to college, she majored in literature and writing. She received a bachelor’s degree in English from Rosemont College, and master’s degrees from both The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University and The George Washington University.


In 2015, she published her second novel, Stone Harbor Bound, a lyrical novel set in Stone Harbor. New Jersey.


For years she has taught creative writing, both poetry and fiction, in the Baltimore-Washington area. As a nurse, she has worked in Assisted Living at a Baltimore retirement community. She has also worked as a waitress—a short career she wrote about in The Baltimore Sun when her “Real Life” pieces would appear regularly in the Modern Life section. Presently she serves as coordinating editor of the Reflections column for American Journal of Nursing.


Among her awards are two Individual Artist grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, scholarships from Sewanee Writers Conference and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and an Artscape Prize for Fiction from the City of Baltimore.


NEWS!

The Baltimore County Historical Society recently awarded an Artist's Relief Grant in the literary category to Madeleine Mysko for her essay, A Pilgrimage to East Towson.

NEWS!

Madeleine Mysko's poem "Crazy Quilt" appears in Talking Writing

Crucial Blue Reviewed in Presence 2020

 I'm thrilled and grateful to Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, and to Arthur Powers for his generous review in the beautiful 2020 issue. "In Crucial Blue," writes Powers, "Madeleine Mysko does a magnificent job of capturing this liturgical sense of the ordinary, precisely portraying everyday moments and allowing us to be lifted by them."  

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"A Bird's Voice Calls" wins honors

 Camille Dungy, judge in Ruminate magazine's Nonfiction Prize competition, chose Madeleine Mysko's memoir of her friendship with the poet Anne Frydman--"A Bird's Voice Calls"--for an honorable mention: " I really really loved this essay," writes Dungy. "Anne is the woman I want to be in the world, but I don't want to have to suffer what she suffered to get there. And the friend/narrator is drawn with compassionate but unswerving attention."  The piece to be published in the Summer 2018 issue, can be accessed on Ruminate's blog: 

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For Nurses

Madeleine has 3 stories in

Learning to Heal: Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose

October 2018, Kent University Press

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