It's almost "International Stuttering Awareness Day" (October 22, 2026), and this year, I'm excited to share a podcast episode that is near and dear to my heart. In April, I recorded an episode of Stuttering as Art with Madeline Wahl.
Stuttering as Art, the podcast, is all about exploring the ways people who stutter create works of art alongside and involving their stutter. I was thrilled to be a guest and deep dive with Madeline about my life as a person who stutters and as an artist. It's an incredible episode, so I truly hope you'll take a listen and learn a little bit more about my origins in Detroit, my journey through high school and acceptance of my stutter after a year of fluency as a teenager.
I share things I haven't before connected to the story of my stutter. Take a listen and let me know what you think in the comments or on my patreon!
About Madeline Wahl
Madeline Wahl (she/her) is a writer and visual artist from the U.S. currently residing in Glasgow, Scotland.
She recently completed her MLitt in Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She was a speaker at the Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) for 2023 and 2024. Previously, she has held editorial positions at Reader’s Digest, HuffPost, and Golf Channel. She was a speaker at the Australian Speak Easy Association’s online 2020 conference and has previously written about stuttering for The Stuttering Foundation. 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 and her first nonfiction book proposal on millennial caregiving. In her spare time, she is also a travel writer and editor who unveils a humanistic view of travel, honing in on the relationship between solo travel, travel after loss, and exploration of self through exploration of a new space.