Alabama Authors Directory

The Alabama Authors Directory is a resource for readers, editors, publishers, educators, librarians, program planners, and the simply curious to discover and learn more about writers with connections to the state.

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Alabama authors are writing in every genre, for every age and interest, and in just about every corner of the world. From the new and emerging to the underknown to the best known, the Alabama Authors Directory is a resource to discover writers and works that reflect our rich, lively literary culture.

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Joe Cuhaj

Hometown: Mahwah, New Jersey Lives in: Fairhope, AL

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  • Email: jcuhaj@gmail.com

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About Joe Cuhaj

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction

Available for: Readings, Workshops, In Person, Remote

Bio: Joe has loved writing since his days in high school in northern New Jersey. Following a tour of duty in the Navy, Joe moved to Mobile, Alabama, where he began a career in radio broadcasting in a variety of roles from news anchor/reporter to music director and on-air talent. Joe found that Alabama had a wealth of outdoor recreation opportunities and he fell in love with the state’s incredible natural beauty and wonders. This love of the state’s geologic and biologic diversity led him to write his …Read More first outdoor guide, Hike America Alabama for Beachway Press in 2000. The book has since been re-released by Falcon Guides as Hiking Alabama and is now in its fifth edition. Joe has gone on to pen 13 more outdoor guidebooks for Falcon and five non-fiction history books for Arcadia Publishing, History Press, and Prometheus Books.

Works: Everyone’s Gone to the Moon: July 1969, Life on Earth, and the Epic Voyage of Apollo 11 (Prometheus Books, August 2023)
A History Lover’s Guide to Mobile and Baldwin County (History Press, March 2023)
Space Oddities: Forgotten Tales of Mankind’s …Read More Exploration of Space (Prometheus Books, August 2022)
Best Easy Day Hikes Birmingham (Falcon Guides, August 2022)
Hiking Alabama (5th Edition) (Falcon Guides, March 2022)
Paddling Alabama (2nd Edition) (Falcon Guides, May 2021)
Hiking Waterfalls Alabama (Falcon Guides, June 2021)
Hidden History of Mobile (History Press, October 2019)
Best Dog Hikes Alabama (Falcon Guides, March 2019)
Hiking Through History Alabama (Falcon Guides, September 2016)
Hiking the Gulf Coast (Falcon Guides, October 2015)
Best Tent Camping Alabama (Menasha Ridge Press, April 2013)
Baseball in Mobile (Arcadia Publishing, January 2004)

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