
EDITORS
Caroline Chavatel Caroline Chavatel is a teacher, poet, and editor from Baltimore, MD. She is the author of Consume Her, winner of the 2024 Ghost Peach Press Prize in Poetry, and White Noises (Greentower Press, 2019), winner of The Laurel Review's 2018 Midwest Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in journals such as The Missouri Review, AGNI, Sixth Finch, Smartish Pace, and Poetry Northwest, and she has won prizes from Blue Earth Review and The Cossack Review.
Jill Mceldowney is the author of the full-length collections ALYDAR (YesYes Books 2026) and Otherlight (YesYes Books 2023), winner of a North American Book Award. She is a recipient of a grant from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. Her previously published work can be found in publications such as The Academy of American Poets, Prairie Schooner, Tupelo Quarterly, Frontier, Muzzle, and other notable publications.
OUR SUPPORT
The work of Madhouse would not be possible without the wisdom and guidance from our Board of Advisers: John A. Nieves, Jay Ponteri, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Tony Stagliano. Many thanks, too, to Hazel and Violet Letterpress located in Phoenix, AZ.
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WHAT WE DO
Madhouse Press is a publisher of limited edition, hand-sewn chapbooks. We are also dedicated to supporting the poetry community by reviewing full-length collections and chapbooks produced by other presses.



