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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James Braziel

Hometown: Remlap, Alabama Lives in: ,

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  • Email: southverve@gmail.com

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About James Braziel

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: James Braziel is the author of the story collection, This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt Fiction Award (Livingston Press). Ditch-Walking is about the people and the land of the Cumberland Plateau in Alabama. He is the author of two novels about a future environmental disaster in the Southern US—Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam). James has received fellowships from Hot Springs National Park, Alabama State Council on the Arts, and Georgia Council for the Arts. He …Read More and his wife, poet Tina Mozelle Braziel, have written a collection of poems about life in the glass cabin they are building by hand in rural Alabama. Glass Cabin will be released in spring 2024 by Pulley Press.

Works:

Glass Cabin (Pulley Press, 2024)

This Ditch-Walking Love (Livingston Press, 2021)

Snakeskin Road (Bantam, 2009)

Birmingham, 35 Miles (Bantam, 2008)

Awards: 2020 Tartt Fiction Award. This Ditch-Walking Love. First collection of short stories. Livingston Press. University of West Alabama.
2017-18 Artist Fellowship. Alabama State Council on the Arts.
2017 Artist-in-Resident. Hot Springs National Park. Hot …Read More Springs, AR.
2015 First prize in fiction for “Tulipwood.” The Porter Fleming Literary Competition. Morris Museum of Art. Augusta, Georgia.

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