Kerry Madden

Madden was born November 22, 1961, in Daytona Beach, Florida.^[1]

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tennessee^[1] and spent her junior year at Manchester University in England.^{[citation needed]} She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Playwriting from the University of Tennessee.^[1]

Madden is married to Kiffen Madden-Lunsford,^[1] who is retired from Carson Gore Elementary in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]} She has three children: Flannery, Lucy, Norah.^[1] Lucy illustrated Madden's first picture book, Nothing Fancy About Kathryn and Charlie.^{[citation needed]}

She divides her time between Birmingham and Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]}

Madden has taught at several universities. Circa 1986, she taught English at Ningbo University, after which she was an English as a second or foreign language teacher at the Los Angeles Unified School District from 1989 to 1995.^[1] Later, she began teaching creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[1] She presently directs the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and teaches in the Antioch University Master of Fine Arts Program in Los Angeles.^[1]

In addition to publishing children's books and teaching, Madden regularly contributes the Los Angeles Times OpEd Page.

Offsides was a New York Public Library Pick for the Teen Age.^{[citation needed]}