Madeleine Pollard is a Berlin-based culture writer. She covers art and photography, with a focus on stories surrounding identity, intimacy, community, fantasy, and archival imagery. Her work has been featured in Dazed, i-D, AnOther, British Journal of Photography, Office Magazine, Elephant, FT Weekend, and The Economist, among others.

She edits and proofreads manuscripts for publishers including Penguin Random House, and is an experienced fact-checker and researcher, having worked in the newsrooms of the Financial Times, the London Evening Standard, Monocle Radio, and the BBC. From 2021 to 2023, she was the assistant editor of  Die Zeit’s annual English-language magazine, ZEIT Germany. She published her first prose-poetry zine, 𝔭𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔰, in spring 2024 and runs a seasonal reading night at Backhaus Projects in Neukölln.

Madeleine studied English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (Crankstart Scholarship) and graduated with a first-class degree in 2018. She has since studied with UCL/Open City Docs School and the Institute for Postnatural Studies.

Editorial clients include: AnOther, BBC, Bitch Media, British Journal of Photography, Byline, Dazed, Deutschlandfunk, Die Zeit, Elephant, ES Magazine, EXBERLINER Magazine, Financial Times, Hoxton Mini Press, i-D, KALTBLUT Magazine, Limna Journal, MAP Magazine, MetFilm Production, Monocle, Penguin Random House, Plinth UK, Office Magazine, Refuge Worldwide, Saraband Publishing, Tes Magazine, The Economist, The Independent, The Isis Magazine, VICE, YUN Journal.