M.S., Columbia University
B.A., University of Delaware
Spiker, who heads the department’s magazine sequence, teaches Magazine Management, Magazine & Feature Writing, Advanced Magazine & Feature Writing, Journalism as Literature, Health & Fitness Writing, and Applied Magazines—the course that produces the campus magazine, Orange & Blue. He came to the University of Florida in 2001.
Spiker, a contributing editor to Men’s Health magazine, is also a freelance writer who specializes in health and fitness writing. His work has also been published in Outside; O, The Oprah Magazine; Fortune; Women's Health; Best Life; Prevention;Runner’s World; Sports Illustrated Women; AARP The Magazine; In Style; St. Petersburg Times; Cooking Light; Every Day with Rachael Ray; The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine; Cosmopolitan; Writer’s Digest; Adventure Sports and more.
Spiker is also co-author of 10 books, including four national bestsellers; YOU: Staying Young, YOU: On a Diet, YOU: The Owner's Manual and The Abs Diet.