Madelyn Bennett Edwards is a Louisiana native who recently moved to an Atlanta suburb from Asheville, North Carolina with her architect husband, Gene. Lilly is her second novel, a sequel to her first, Catfish, published in 2017.
“Maddy,” as her friends and grandchildren call her, went to beauty school to put herself through college, graduating from Louisiana College with a BA in journalism and English at 38—a single mom with two children. She earned an MA in writing from Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina after age 60. The former television health journalist started MBC, a television production company, in Alexandria, Louisiana in the 1980s, moved it to Nashville, Tennessee in the 1990s and sold it in 2003.
Maddy is presently working on the third book in the Catfish trilogy, and on a memoir about withdrawing from Dilaudid after fourteen years on an intrathecal pain pump. You can read more about Maddy and her upcoming releases on her website: