Patrick Madden is a professor at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the award-winning
Sublime Physick: Essays (Nebraska, 2016) and
Quotidiana: Essays (Nebraska, 2010), and coeditor, with David Lazar, of
After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. His essays have appeared in a variety of periodicals as well as in
The Best Creative Nonfiction and
The Best American Spiritual Writing anthologies. Visit Madden’s website at
quotidiana.org.