How Can I Look It Up When I Don’t Know How It’s Spelled?: Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks

Professor of English and Creative Writing at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Sage Graduate Fellow of Cornell University (MFA), and 2023 Monson Arts Fellow, Marjorie Maddox has published fifteen collections of poetry. These include Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (WordTech, Yellowglen Prize); Perpendicular As I (Sandstone Book Award); Begin with a Question (Paraclete, International Book Award and Illumination Book Award winner, Catholic Media Book Awards third place recipient); and the ekphrastic collaborations from Shanti Arts Heart Speaks, Is Spoken For (with photographer Karen Elias) and In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind (with her artist daughter Anna Lee Hafer—www.hafer.work—as well as artists Karen Elias, Greg Mort, Margaret Munz-Losch, Antar Mikosz, Ingo Swann, and Christian Twamley). Forthcoming is Seeing Things (Wildhouse 2024). In addition, Marjorie Maddox has published the story collection What She Was Saying (Fomite Press); four children’s and YA books—incl