Tenaya Darlington

She graduated from Beloit College,^[2] and Indiana University Bloomington, with a Master of Fine Arts, in 1997.

She worked as a food critic, and writer for Isthmus Newspaper,^[3] the alternative weekly in Madison, Wisconsin, where she wrote a biweekly culture column about the bizarre, called “On the Loose.”.

She was a visiting writer at DePauw University.^[4] She teaches at St. Joseph's University.^[5]

Her work has appeared in Bomb,^[6] Image Journal,^[7] Hayden's Ferry Review.^[8]

She has worked with her brother, Andre Darlington, on a number of cocktail books.

• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Madame Deluxe
• Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer’s Award.^[9]

In 2010 Tenaya began a dairy diary on Blogger to go along with a class she was teaching. Tenaya is now an avid cheese blogger also known as Madame Fromage.^[10] "Madame Fromage has just one goal, you see? To help you fall hopelessy in love with cheese. Just as she has." ^[11]

• Madame Deluxe. Coffee House. 2000. ISBN 978-1-56689-105-9.

• Bee a Good Neighbor: Urban Apiaries' Honey Could Hardly be More Local, Buzzing in from City Rooftops and Bottled by Zip Code. The Philadelphia Inquirer. 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
• Food Desert: North Philly Still Lacks Fresh Food Access. Grid Magazine. 2009. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2013-11-14.
• Daily Dish: Farm to Philly Hosts Bloggers Who Eat Locally, Seasonally. Grid Magazine. 2009. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
• Whole Hog. Ecotone. 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10.

• Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese, A Guide to Wedges, Recipes, and Pairings. Running Press. 2013. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7624-4604-9.
• Maybe Baby. Back Bay Books (Little, Brown & Co.). 2004. ISBN 978-0-316-00075-8.

• Raphael Kadushin, ed. (2005). "A Patch of Skin". Barnstorm: contemporary Wisconsin fiction. Terrace Books. ISBN 978-0-299-20854-7.
• Brett Fletcher Lauer; Aimee Kelley, eds. (2004). Isn't it romantic: 100 love poems by younger American poets. Verse Press. ISBN 978-0-9746353-1-6.

• The New Cocktail Hour. Running Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0762457267.
• Turner Classic Movies: Movie Night Menus. 2016. ISBN 978-0762460939.
• Booze and Vinyl. Running Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-7624-6347-3.