
Madeline Wahl
Speaker
Madeline Wahl (she/her) recently completed her MLitt in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She was a speaker on stuttering at the London Arts-Based Research Centre, Glasgow International Fantasy Conference (GIFCon), and Australian Speak Easy Association’s online 2020 conference. Working with visual artist Zoë Lintzeris, Wahl's "Physical Body: Invisible Stutter" and "Virtual Stutter: Remote Communication" were two photo and text series published to much acclaim. She has previously written about stuttering for The Mighty, International Stuttering Awareness Day, The Stuttering Foundation, and others. Previously, she has held editorial positions at Reader’s Digest, HuffPost, and Golf Channel. She holds a BA in Advertising/Public Relations with a minor in Psychology and a minor in English-Writing from the University of Central Florida. She is working on her first novel in YA Fantasy featuring characters who stutter and her first nonfiction book proposal on millennial caregiving.
