Biography
Master teacher, editor and poet, Madelyn Garner has degrees from the University of Denver and Mills College. As a creative writing instructor, middle school principal, and mentor, she is widely recognized for designing and implementing a variety of innovative educational programs at all levels, elementary through university. Among her educational achievements and honors, she is the recipient of the Colorado Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities for encouraging incorporation of the arts into school programs and her leadership in providing students multiple opportunities in the field of writing.
Named a Leo Love Merit Scholar at the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference, Madelyn is also a recipient of an Aspen Writers’ Foundation’s Annual Writing Retreat Scholarship and Jackson Hole Writers Conference Poetry Prize. Her work has been anthologized in the Best American Poetry series, as well as appearing in numerous journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly, Water-Stone Review, Dogwood, The Pinch, Laurel Review, and The Inflectionist Review. She is co-editor of the poetry anthology, Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, a Colorado Book Award Finalist. Madelyn Garner’s debut collection, Hum of Our Blood, selected for publication in the July 2015 Open Reading Period of Tupelo/3:A Taos Press, was also a Colorado Book Award Finalist and longlisted for the Julie Suk Award. Her most recent manuscript, The Luminous Between, will be published by 3:A Taos Press, Fall 2025.
She lives in Denver, Colorado, along with her daughters and grandchildren.
