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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Matthew Layne

Hometown: Birmingham, Alabama Lives in: Birmingham, AL

Contact Information

  • Email: mr.matthew.layne@gmail.com

Address:

    • 3623 Dunbarton Drive
      Birmingham, AL 35223
      United States
  • Preferred Contact Method: Any, Email, Form on My Website, USPS Mail, Any

 

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About Matthew Layne

Genres: Poetry

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

Bio: Poet, librarian, raconteur; Matt Layne has been poking hornet’s nests and looking under rocks for lizards and snakes since he was knee-high to a peanut peg. A founding member of the 1990s improvisational poetry collective, The Kevorkian Skull poets, Layne believes in the radical transformative power found in the intersection of poetry and art, and he wants you to write your truth and share it out loud. A multiple Hackney Award winning writer, he has also been recognized by the National Society …Read More of Arts and Letters and been featured in Peek Magazine, Birmingham Arts Journal, Steel Toe Review, B-Metro, and elsewhere. His first collection of poetry, Miracle Strip, was published by Brick Road Poetry Press in 2023. Look for him at your local library.

Works: Poetry Contributor: The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama, Texas A&M Press, 2023
Author: Miracle Strip, Brick Road Poetry Press, 2023
Contributor: Chapter Author with Katie Moellering: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Student Debt.” …Read More American Library Association. Public Programs Office., Welch, M., Hogan, P., & American Library Association. Public Programs Office. (2020). Rainy day ready?: financial literacy programs and tools / edited by Melanie Welch and Patrick Hogan. (M. Welch & P. Hogan, Eds.). ALA Editions.

Awards:

2024 Book of the Year for Miracle Strip, Alabama State Poetry Society
2024 Librarian of the Year, Jefferson County Public Library Association
2016 Hackney Literary Award

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