Madeline DeFrees Author

Madeline DeFrees was educated at St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, Oregon, and went on to earn a BA from Marylhurst College and an MA from the University of Oregon. She received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and published nine collections of poems, two volumes of non-fiction, and numerous essays, reviews, and short stories. A Catholic nun for many years, DeFrees taught at the College of the Holy Names in Spokane, Washington, the University of Montana, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from which she retired in 1985. She spent most of the next thirty years in Seattle, before moving “back home,” as she thought of it, to Portland in 2010.