Madeleine Mori is a Japanese American writer and editor, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned a BS in Wine and Viticulture from California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo, where she was the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, and an MFA from New York University, where she served as a Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review. Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, The Oxford Review of Books, jubilat, DIAGRAM, the American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Common, The Margins, 2022 Best New Poets (University of Virginia Press), Condé Nast Traveler, and Pleiades.

She has received support from the Community of Writers and was a 2021 Margins Fellow through the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, during which time she guest-edited a special folio for The Margins on wine. The Founding Poetry Editor at Pigeon Pages, she lives in Brooklyn and is the Assistant Director of the MFA in Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, where she is the faculty advisor to Lumina Journal. She is at work on a poetry collection and a collection of essays.