Madelaine Helga Zadik

Madelaine Zadik is a writer, artist and plant lover who lives in the wooded hills of western Massachusetts. She was a co-owner of Lunaria: A Feminist Bookstore in Northampton, Massachusetts.

A former educator at the Botanic Garden of Smith College and editor of Botanic Garden News, she now devotes herself to writing. Her essay Avoidance was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Madelaine is currently working on a memoir about her relationship with her Aunt Helga, whom she never knew except through letters Helga wrote from prison in Nazi Germany.

Madelaine was a speaker at Liberation75, an International Conference to mark the 75th anniversary of liberation from the Holocaust. She also participated in the exhibition, Putting Things Back, Jewish Breslauers and Their Objects, in Wroclaw, Poland. In a video about the exhibition, she tells a little of her family story and the objects she loaned for the exhibition.

Madelaine’s work appears in a variety of literary journals—see publications.