Madison McCartha is a poet, critic, and multimedia artist whose debut book of poetry and visual art, FREAKOPHONE WORLD, was published by Inside the Castle in 2021. Their second book, THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE, is forthcoming from Black Ocean.
McCartha’s writing appears in Black Warrior Review, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, The Spectacle, and elsewhere. Their work has received support from The Electronic Literature Organization, Blue Mountain Center, and the Ucross Foundation, and has been exhibited through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, the Poetic Research Bureau, and digitally through Small Press Traffic.
McCartha holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Their peer-reviewed essay, “Notes toward a Virtual Poetics,” was published by Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience in 2022.