About

Maddie Baxter is a seasoned experience design professional, with history working in the financial, technology, and publishing industries. Skilled in UX writing, content strategy, copywriting, editing, SEO, Figma, and Axure, creative writing, and poetry. Maddie has worked as the lead content strategist on highly-visible, direct-to-consumer projects at major financial institutions such as Wells Fargo and Truist. At a professional level, Maddie tries to never leave behind her roots as a creative writer and is constantly finding ways to push the boundaries on traditional UX writing. She believes poetry and art is everywhere - even in your banking app.

Maddie’s a poet and copywriter from Richmond, Virginia. She graduated with Honors from Wake Forest University with a degree in English, Creative Writing, and Communication in May 2019. Her creative writing has been published in multiple literary magazines, including Arcturus Press and Brandeis University’s national anthology of undergraduate creative writing, Laurel Moon. Her poem “Two Black Holes Ate Each Other & Rippled the Fabric of Space-time” was the first-place winner in the Wake Up to Poetry contest at Wake Forest University in April 2018. Her Honors thesis, “Poetic Necromancy: A Study on the Oulipo” explored the French literary movement “Oulipo,” in which poems are written according to different formulas and mathematical equations. Her most recent publication is a piece from her thesis titled “A Yellow Bird Fell Out of My Mouth,” which was featured in TIMBER’s summer edition.

As a writer, Maddie is committed to bringing together the ordinary and the extraordinary to ruminate on highly specific experiences. She focuses much of her work on mundane objects or routines with a desire to rip off their exterior layer and find the meaning laying underneath. She is a massive fan of public transportation, bathrooms, and airports.