Editors
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Jay Lamar
JAY LAMAR worked in arts and humanities outreach at Auburn University, where she was the founding director of the Alabama Center for the Book, before becoming executive director of the Alabama Bicentennial Commission, 2014-2020. She has been a writer and editor for almost thirty years and is co-editor of The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers.
photo credit Virginia Scruggs
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Jennifer Horne
JENNIFER HORNE served as the twelfth Poet Laureate of Alabama, 2017-2021. She is the author of three collections of poems, a short story collection, and a biography, Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author, and has edited or co-edited five volumes of poetry, essays, and stories related to the South. Horne has taught creative writing in a variety of settings and has been recognized for her work by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Alabama State Poetry Society, and the Tuscaloosa Arts Council, among others.
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Creative Collaborators
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Katie Lamar Jackson
Katie Lamar Jackson is a freelance writer and photographer with four decades of experience working as a journalist, author, editor, and educator. Her work has appeared in myriad newspapers, magazines, and essay collections and she is author/co-author of ten nonfiction books covering topics ranging from a one-eyed fortuneteller to a decorated Vietnam War veteran. As a writer of a certain age, Katie is now re-embracing her first love—the natural world—through a variety of writing projects and as a student in Western Colorado University’s MFA program in Nature Writing.
photo credit Virginia Scruggs
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Wendy Reed
Emmy-winning writer and producer Wendy Reed’s work includes regional documentaries and the TV series Bookmark and Discovering Alabama. Her books include An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and All Out of Faith and Circling Faith. She has taught in Honors Colleges and is passionate about compelling science-writing, critical thinking, combatting disinformation, and books. Various Universities and the Alabama State Council on the Arts have awarded her writing fellowships. During the pandemic, she was a census enumerator, vaccine registrar, and obtained a Master’s in Public Health. Currently she is a Director at UAB’s Alabama BRAIN Lab.
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Photographer
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Carolyn Sherer
CAROLYN SHERER is an American photographer interested in issues of identity. She works in series, making individual images to create a composite portrait of often-marginalized communities. Her past work has featured people with disabilities, people living with HIV, and multiple projects related to the LGBTQ community. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
photo credit Virginia Scruggs