Patrick Madden is a Fulbright Fellow, writer, and professor at Brigham Young University and the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Madden studied physics as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame. After graduating with a BS in 1993, he served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Uruguay, where he met Karina Cabrera, whom he would later marry. Madden completed his master's degree in English at Brigham Young University in 1999 and his PhD in English at Ohio University in 2004. As a Fulbright fellow, he has twice traveled to Uruguay, where he researched the Tupamaros revolutionaries' record-breaking prison break in 1971.
Madden is a 2016 Howard Foundation fellow.