Madison Miller (formerly Madison Whatley) is a poet and writer whose work explores glamor, girlhood, intimacy, and the performance of beauty. Born and raised in South Florida, her voice moves between softness and spectacle, always returning to the body: how it looks, how it feels, and how it wants to be seen. Her poems shimmer with pop culture, tenderness, and a deliberate, ultra-feminine self-mythology.

She is a 2023 graduate of Florida International University's Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing, where she was the Managing Editor of Gulf Stream Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in Variant Lit, Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, and other publications. Her poetry manuscript, Hotline Bimbo, was selected as a Semifinalist for the 2023 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry by Tupelo Press.

Madison earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a specialization in Literary Study and a minor in Creative Writing from Saint Leo University in 2020, where she was an editorial assistant at the Sandhill Review. She has been twice accepted for residencies at the Vermont Studio Center. She has been invited to read her poems at the Bonnier Gallery in Miami, Tombolo Books in St. Petersburg, and The Betsy Hotel on South Beach. She was a featured poet at Miami-Dade County’s Downtown Main Library for their Lunchtime Poetry and Jazz author series. She was an Assistant Program Coordinator for Miami Book Fair 2021 and 2022. She taught a virtual workshop offered by Miami Book Fair in 2023 for Miami Dade College students on how to run a college literary magazine. She also worked with O'Miami in 2023 for their Meet a Poet Micro-residency at Books & Books in Coral Gables, FL, and provided individual poetry consultations to Miamians seeking feedback on their writing. During her time as a graduate student at FIU, she taught undergraduate students Writing and Rhetoric and Creative Writing: Forms and Practices as a TA and Adjunct Lecturer.

She also shares beauty rituals and everyday glam storytelling with an engaged audience on social media.