2026 State of the Art Prize, Ohio

About Madeline ffitch

Millfield, OH

Madeline ffitch is the author of the story collection VALPARAISO, ROUND THE HORN and the novel STAY AND FIGHT, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Hemingway award, the Lambda Literary award in Lesbian fiction, the LA Times Book Award and the Washington State Book Award. ffitch’s work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and The Anarchist Review of Books, among other places. She has been awarded two O. Henry Prizes, in 2024 and 2025. She is included in the 2024 edition of Best American Short Stories. Her second novel, AVALON, RISE, about kitchen table antifascism in Appalachia, as well as a new collection of short fiction, are forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ffitch has been awarded residencies at UCross, Yaddo, and Macdowell, as well as the Blue Mountain Center and the Carolyn Moore Writing House. ffitch lives with her two children in the woods of Appalachian Ohio.

Madeline ffitch is the author of the story collection VALPARAISO, ROUND THE HORN and the novel STAY AND FIGHT, which was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Hemingway award, the Lambda Literary award in Lesbian fiction, the LA Times Book Award and the Washington State Book Award. ffitch’s work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and The Anarchist Review of Books, among other places. She has been awarded two O. Henry Prizes, in 2024 and 2025. She is included in the 2024 edition of Best American Short Stories. Her second novel, AVALON, RISE, about kitchen table antifascism in Appalachia, as well as a new collection of short fiction, are forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ffitch has been awarded residencies at UCross, Yaddo, and Macdowell, as well as the Blue Mountain Center and the Carolyn Moore Writing House. ffitch lives with her two children in the woods of Appalachian Ohio.