Tracey Lander-Garrett

Author of the Madison Roberts urban fantasy series.

Tracey grew up in New York, Connecticut, and Florida, none of which was her fault. With two parents with mental health issues, let’s say her childhood was a little chaotic. The magical places books took her to—like Oz and Wonderland and Middle Earth—were havens she could escape to when the chaos got to be too much. She became a lifelong devotee of roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons in high school for similar reasons, not just because elves rule and orcs drool. (But seriously, elves are the best. Half-elves are pretty great too.)

She’s moved approximately thirty times in her life, some of which was her fault. Out of high school, she worked retail and restaurants and desk jobs. She was a theater manager and an assistant and caught the chicken pox from Al Pacino, which was not part of her job description. Eventually she went to college, and holds a BA and an MFA, both in creative writing. Over a thirteen-year period, she taught English for eight different colleges in the greater NYC area, including Brooklyn College, John Jay, and BMCC and very much enjoyed dropping f-bombs in her classrooms. She lived in Central Texas for a time, where she was a teaching artist in Austin Public Library’s Badgerdog Creative Writing program (sans f-bombs).

She now lives in Northwestern Pennsylvania with her dream-nerd husband and five adorable-but-maddening cats.