Kerry Madden

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Kerry Madden (born November 22, 1961) is an American author of teen novels and a professor of creative writing. She teaches at Antioch University in Los Angeles and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, she earned a BA and MFA from the University of Tennessee and spent her junior year at Manchester University in England. She is married to Kiffen Madden-Lunsford and has three children: Flannery, Lucy, and Norah. Her daughter Lucy illustrated Madden's first picture book, "Nothing Fancy About Kathryn and Charlie." Madden has lived between Birmingham and Los Angeles and has taught at several universities. Around 1986 she taught English at Ningbo University, then worked as an ESL teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District from 1989 to 1995. She later taught creative writing at UCLA and now directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and teaches in the Antioch University MFA program in Los Angeles. In addition to writing, she contributes op-ed pieces to the Los Angeles Times. Her book "Offsides" was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age.