Madison Gill (she/her) is a female poet from the western slope of Colorado. Madison has been developing her craft since she was a sophomore in slam poetry club at Montrose High School. She has been seriously submitting and publishing her poetry over the past seven years. Throughout her poetry career, Madison has had the privilege of studying under great teachers, professors and figures in the industry that have guided her and given her invaluable tools to continue honing her writing.
She received her bachelor’s degree in English from Colorado State University-Pueblo. As a student there, she was involved with the university’s student-run literary magazine, Tempered Steel. Her poetry was published in three annual editions of Tempered Steel, which marked the first legitimate publication of her poetry.
Madison’s first acceptance outside of an academic platform came in 2019 from a Denver-based journal called From Whispers to Roars. Since then, she has gone on to build her publication history both in print and online with such local, national and even international publications as: The Write Launch, Tiny Spoon, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Sledgehammer Lit, and Pocket Lint among others. She continues to submit her work for publication and share her poetry in person at local readings and open mics. Most recently, her work is forthcoming in a mental health anthology entitled Tea With My Monster published by Beyond the Veil Press.
In 2021, Madison was named the winner of the Cantor Prize awarded through the Telluride Art Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program and judged by Donald Levering of New Mexico. This award marks the biggest milestone of Madison’s poetry career thus far. Her dream is to publish a full length collection (or several) of poems and to possibly hold the title of Colorado Poet Laureate one day.