Ritual Loss (forthcoming from Omnidawn, 2026)
chosen by Desirée Alvarez as winner of the 2024 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize
“When a sound wave has enough intensity, it becomes luminous. Ritual Loss conjures a new lyric country that illuminates the heart. “Every time you mend the thing you show it what you think of it”. There’s a poem in the collection called “Contagious Magic” and that’s what these poems are—to be read without stirring, mesmerized.”
—Desirée Alvarez, Judge's Citation
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
POETRY & TRANSLATIONS
-Massachusetts Review, “The Regime of Truth,” “Shameproof,” Volume 66, Issue 1, 2025
-Bennington Review, “Ritual Loss” and “Contagious Magic,” Issue 13, “Family Gathering,” 2024
-PANK, “Sympathetic Magic” and “Letter to/from the Diaspora,” 18.1, Spring, 2023
-Beloit Poetry Journal, “Work[ers] Song,” Vol. 72 No. 2, Fall/Winter, 2022
(you can read Christopher Watkins’ analysis of “Work[ers] Song” here)
-Interim, “Song for Panic as Agitated Stardust,” “Lore for Hurricane Season,” “Song for the Unrescued Floating in Bliss, Vol. 39, Issue 2, Summer 2022
-The Stinging Fly, “Ode to the Marriage and the Divorce,” Issue 43, Winter, 2020-2021
-Public Poetry, “Shadow Work,” Work Issue, 2018
-The Southwest Anthology: The Best of the Writing Programs, “The Start,” 2017
-Nimrod International Journal, “New Now,” “Easy to Hide,” “The Start,” Winter, Issue 38, 2016
-World Literature Today, Translations of “Two Poems by Ming Di,” April, 2016
-Witch Craft Magazine, “A Charm of Jet Feathers to Keep me from Drowning,” Issue 2, March 2016
-Read America(s), “Two Translations of Graça Graúna and of Briceda Cuevas Cob,” 2016
-Yalobusha Review, “In the Great Basin,” “You Get One Plum Heart,” Issue 22, 2015
-Souvenir, “Porcupine Stew” Summer, 2015
-Read Women: An Anthology, “Two Translations of Irish Poet, Áine Ní Ghlinn,” 2014
-Cactus Heart, “Getting Out” Issue 8, 2014
-Town Creek Poetry, “Binding” Spring, 2013
PROSE
-“An Irish Childhood on 8mm Film: 1970’s West Kerry and the O’Driscoll Family Films,” in Childhood and the Irish,
ed. Salvador Ryan, Dublin: Wordwell Press, forthcoming, 2025
-“Lost in digitisation: The film reel and the craft of women’s home movie making,” Carolann Madden, Sarah Arnold and
Kasandra O’Connell, Quarterly Review of Film and Video,Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1–18, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2025.2518361
-“Hidden in Plain Sight: Attending to women's amateur filmmaking histories at the Irish Film Archive,” Sarah Arnold
and Carolann Madden, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 43, Issue 4, 2024.
-“Wet Nurse to na Daoine Maithe: 19th Century Breastfeeding and the Otherworld,”
in Birth and the Irish: A Miscellany, ed. Salvador Ryan. Dublin: Wordwell Press,
November, 2021
-Review of Jennifer Grotz “Window Left Open” Gulf Coast
-Interview with poet, Jessica Piazza, for Locked Horn Press Spotlight, 2015
- “Christine Andrea Caviglia,” in Women in Clothes eds. Sheila Heti,
Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton (Penguin, 2014)
RELATED HONOURS
-Winner of the 2024 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize, judged by Desirée Alvarez, 2024
-Ploughshares Emerging Writer runner-up for “At the Mass Stranding I Decide,” 2021
-Finalist, Omnidawn Broadside Poetry Prize, judged by Victoria S. Cheng, 2020
-Longlist Palette Poetry Emerging Poets Prize, 2020
-Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Houston: NUI Galway Archival Research, 2020
-Winner Inprint Verlaine Prize for Poetry, judged by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, 2019
-Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Houston: American Folklore Society Conference, 2019
-Finalist Iowa Review Awards, Poetry, 2019
-Fulbright recipient to Galway, Ireland, 2018-2019
-Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Houston: American Folklore Society Conference, 2017
-Creative Writing Fellowship from University of Houston: American Conference for Irish Studies, 2017
-Finalist Public Poetry “Work” contest, 2017
-Finalist Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod International Journal, 2016
-University of Houston Presidential Fellowship, 2015
-Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/Fondren Foundation Fellowship, 2015
-Queen's University Belfast, Seamus Heaney Centre's Poetry Summer School, 2014
-Finalist in Poetry for the New South Annual Writing Contest, 2013
-Finalist in River Styx International Poetry Contest, 2012
-Honorable Mention in Poetry for University of New Orleans Writing Contest, 2011
MISC
-Graduate Student Spotlight on Carolann Madden, in Forum, Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2019