MADELINE
FFITCH, a founding member of the Missoula Oblongata, was born and raised
in beautiful Portland, Oregon. After holding jobs as a trail crew leader, a
ship’s cook, and an artist’s model, she moved to Missoula, Montana
to open the Milquetoast Detective Agency, soon followed by its subsidiary, Milquetoast
Couples Counseling. Madeline helped to organize the Missoula Free School, and
was a founding member of the Slumgullion Small Press Collaborative. Instrumental
in the burgeoning New Enthusiast movement of the early oughts, Madeline worked
as a delivery person and baker for the start-up business, My Pizza, My Idea!
and worked as a taste-tester at its spin-off company, Pie Baking Contest! Madeline
lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she is an MFA candidate in fiction
writing at UMass Amherst. She has received the Harvey Swados Award for fiction,
and is the recipient, on behalf of the Missoula Oblongata, of a grant from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council to produce her play, “Go to the Chateau”.
The show was performed in a moving car for an audience of two at a time, and
played to a sold-out run in the spring of 2008. Madeline holds the position
of Club Trainer for The Red Suit Enthusiasm. In her capacity as long-time consultant
for the Shuttlecoque Think Tank, she has appeared as a guest on “The Shuttlecoque
Sporting Hour,” where she spoke about ephemera and athletics.
