Madison Garber
Madison Garber is an Instructor of English at Florida Atlantic University. She received her doctorate in English with a concentration in fiction writing and a secondary focus in speculative literature, television, and film from the University of North Texas. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Florida Atlantic University, where she was the managing editor of Swamp Ape Review and a graduate teaching assistant for the Department of English. She is the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the UNT Department of English’s award for “Outstanding Teaching Fellow” and the FAU Department of English’s awards for “Most Promising Graduate Teaching Assistant” and “Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant.” She has taught a variety of undergraduate composition, literature, and creative writing courses, including special topics courses on dystopian literature, ghost stories, and the craft of storytelling for fiction writers.
Outside of the college classroom, she has shared her passion for literature and writing in outreach programs that emphasize the value of creative expression. In 2022, she was selected to serve for two years as an instructor in UNT’s Writers in the Schools (WITS) Program, which introduces seventh grade students at Calhoun Middle School in Denton, Texas, to various forms of creative writing, including graphic novels, plays, stories, personal essays, and poems. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the creative writing Artist in Residence at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida, where she taught the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and experimental forms to high school juniors and seniors. She has also taught creative writing in FAU’s “Teaching Outstanding Performers (TOPS) Piano and Creative Writing Camp” and creative nonfiction in a community writing workshop hosted by FAU’s Department of English.
In 2022, her short story “Flight in the Anonymizing City” was selected for FOLIO’s Editor’s Prize in Fiction. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have also been featured in The Adroit Journal, Stonecoast Review, and others. A trained ballerina for over 25 years, she is currently at work on a speculative fiction novel about professional ballet dancers.