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Literary Arts - Fiction
Florence, AL

Biography

Anita Miller Garner holds the MFA in fiction from the University of Alabama.  She attended the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and taught at Virginia Commonwealth University before moving back to her native state. She is a founding member and past president of Alabama Writers’ Forum, a grassroots organization promoting creative writing across the state. She founded and continues to serve as coordinator of the statewide High School Literary Awards. She has twice served as a member of the Speakers’ Bureau of the Alabama Humanities Foundation and travels the Southeast promoting the fiction of Alabama women writers. Currently she reads fiction for storySouth magazine and teaches creative writing at the University of North Alabama.