Maura Madden is a writer, performer, producer and crafter working at Comedy Central in New York City. Maura was a member of the San Francisco comedy group Killing My Lobster from 1998-2002. She co-hosted Two for the Show, a monthly variety show at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction in NYC, from 2005-07. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Rufus, her Two for the Show co-host. They have a lovely dog named Lorenzo.

Crafternoon is her first book.