Madden is the author of three books of poetry, Signals (USC Press 2008), Prodigal: Variations (Lethe 2011), Nest (Salmon, forthcoming 2014), as well as the chapbook My Father’s House (Seven Kitchens Press, forthcoming 2013). He is co-editor of Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, and literary arts editor for Jasper magazine. He is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina.