An Evening With T Kira Madden

Time: 7:30pm-9:00pm
Date: February 13, 2025
Location: Butler University’s Schrott Center for the Arts

The Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series invites you to hear Lambda Literary Award winning author T Kira Madden read from her work and take questions from the audience on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at Butler University’s Shelton Auditorium. The event is free to the public with no ticket required. T Kira Māhealani Madden is a hapa-Kanaka Maoli writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the Founding Editor of “No Tokens,” a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Tin House, DISQUIET, NYSCA/NYFA, and Yaddo. Her debut memoir, “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls,” was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award for lesbian memoir. In the acknowledgements of her memoir, Madden wrote, “My greatest dedication and gratitude is to every other drop-dead-lonely, queer-as-hell, bucktoothed loserly outcast…for anyone with a story to tell and a will to rise. Write it down. You are not alone; you are the champion of my heart.” “Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls” is currently in development as a feature film. Madden teaches at Mount Holyoke College, and is now serving as Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.