Kristen-Paige Madonia

Kristen-Paige Madonia is the author of the novels Invisible Fault Lines (2016) and Fingerprints of You (2012), both published by Simon & Schuster BFYR. Her fiction is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review and has appeared in Boulevard Magazine, The Greensboro Review, New Orleans Review, and American Fiction. “Eleven Heartbeats Long” is an excerpt from her novel-in-progress, a book about the cost of caregiving and keeping secrets.