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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Katie Lamar Jackson

Hometown: Auburn, Alabama Lives in: Opelika, Alabama

Contact Information

  • Email: katielamarjackson@gmail.com

Address:

    • 1301 Morris Ave.
      Opelika, Alabama 36801
      United States
  • Phone: (334) 332-2923
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email, Phone

 

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About Katie Lamar Jackson

Genres: Nonfiction, Journalism

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

Bio: Katie Lamar Jackson is a freelance writer and photographer with four-plus decades of experience working as a journalist, science writer and editor, university communications/PR director and educator, and nonfiction author. Her articles, which have been published in myriad newspapers and magazines, cover a variety of topics including nature, wildlife, the environment, arts and culture, history, and travel. She is also the long-time garden columnist and feature writer for Alabama Living magazine …Read More and has authored, co-authored, or contributed to a dozen nonfiction books about everything from accidental environmentalists and moon-struck umbraphiles to a one-eyed fortune teller and a Vietnam War hero. Katie holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Auburn University, where she worked for more than twenty-five years before retiring in 2012 to become a full-time freelancer. She is about to begin work on an MFA in creative writing with a focus on nature writing.

Works: Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging, collaborator/contributor (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2024)
The Mystic Memoir: From Mirth to Infinity (and Beyond), contributor (Village Smith Press, 2024)
Celebrating 100 Years: …Read More Southern Union State Community College, author (Donning Publishers, 2023)
The Attention of a Traveller: Essays on William Bartram’s “Travels” and Legacy, contributor (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2022)
A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam’s A Shau Valley, co-author w/ Bennie Adkins (Da Capo Press, 2018)
The Art of Wench Cooking & Bright Illuminations: The Art of Margee Bright Ragland and the Words of Others, contributor (Village Smith Press, 2018 & 2015, respectively)
A Movement of the People: The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama, author (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2017)
Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster; co-author w/Dot Moore (New South Books, 2001)

Awards: Senior Practitioner Award, Southern Public Relations Federation (2014)
Philip Forrest Jr. Practitioner of the Year Award, Public Relations Council of Alabama (2012)
College of Agriculture Faculty Member of the Year Award, Auburn University …Read More (2012)
Practitioner of the Year, East Alabama Chapter, Public Relations Council of Alabama (2011 & 2012)
Hawes Award, Georgia Historical Society, Best Book of Local History for the State of Georgia (2002) for co-authoring Oracle of the Ages (New South Books 2001)

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