Madge McKeithen was born in North Carolina, graduated from the College of William and Mary, and completed graduate studies at Johns Hopkins and Queens University of Charlotte. She has been a teacher, and a researcher and editor for a U.S. Congressman, the World Bank, a software development company, the Educational Testing Service, and a demography journal. She teaches writing to undergraduate and continuing education students at the New School and in private workshop in New York. Madge is working on a longer work of nonfiction. Blue Peninsula (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006) is her first book. Her work has appeared in Lost and Found: Stories from New York (Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood Books, 2009) and is forthcoming in TriQuarterly.