Nonfiction Workshop
From 1979-l987 Madeline Blais was on the staff of Tropic Magazine of the Miami Herald where she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.
She is the author of The Heart is an Instrument, a collection of journalism, In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle, chosen as a finalist in the category of general nonfiction by the National Book Critics’ Circle and cited by ESPN as one of the top one hundred sports books of the twentieth century, two memoirs, Uphill Walkers: Portrait of a Family and To the New Owners: A Martha’s Vineyard Memoir.
Her latest work, a biography called Queen of the Court: The Many Lives of Tennis Legend Alice Marble, has been optioned by Red Bull Studios. She has contributed essays to publications such as Superstition Review, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Cogniscenti, the National Book Review, and The New Guard as well as in books such as “Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave” edited by Ellen Sussman, “Our Boston: Writers Celebrate the City They Love” edited by Andrew Blauner, “A Story Larger than My Own edited by Janet Burroway, “Double Take: Portraits Over Time” by Maggie Evans Silverstein, and in “Making Good Time” edited by Lynne Barrett.
She has served as the chair of Pulitzer juries four times and has taught and promoted writing on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts and at Goucher College’s MFA in Nonfiction, as a visiting writer at the Creative Writing Program at Florida International University, Warren Wilson College, and the American University in Bulgaria and as a presenter at the Key West Literary Seminars, Aspen Writers Workshop, Writers in Paradise, Writing in Dingle and Rancho La Puerta among other venues. Her current project is a work of nonfiction inspired by what was then the most fictional place in the world, Miami in the eighties.
