Madden Aleia is a writer and musician from Connecticut. She holds a B.A. in American Studies and Poetry from Smith College and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Rest Cure, a dissertation collection on gay gothic writing, and the composer of the record Plants of the Bible (Feeding Tube Records, 2019). She is the owner of Bookends in Florence, a bookstore and venue in Northampton, MA.