Marjetta Geerling

Marjetta Geerling is the author of Fancy White Trash (Viking, 2008) a 2009 YALSA Best Books for Young Adults and Rainbow List selection. She has over twenty years of experience in the field of education and has taught writing to every age group from kindergarten to senior citizen. She was named Teacher of the Year during her twelve years in elementary education, then moved to her current position as an Associate Professor of English at Broward College where she’s twice been named Professor of the Year and recently earned tenure. She has been a guest lecturer at Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing and has led numerous workshops for local libraries, literary arts festivals, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Florida Writers’ Association, and the University of Miami’s Writing Institute. She has presented at over a dozen SCBWI-Florida area meetings and state conferences. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University.