Alabama Authors Directory

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Jennifer Horne

Hometown: Little Rock, Arkansas Lives in: Cottondale,, AL

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About Jennifer Horne

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops, In Person, Remote

Bio: Jennifer Horne served as the twelfth Poet Laureate of Alabama from 2017 to 2021. Most recently, she is the author of a literary biography, Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author (University of Alabama Press, 2024). The author of three collections of poems, Bottle Tree, Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light, and the forthcoming Letters to Little Rock, she also has written a collection of short stories, Tell the World You’re a Wildflower. She has edited or co-edited …Read More five volumes of poetry, essays, and stories, including, with Jay Lamar, Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging (University of Georgia Press, 2024). She regularly gives readings from her work and teaches workshops in creative writing.

Works: Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield, Author. University of Alabama Press, January 2024.
Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging, co-edited with Jay Lamar, University of Georgia Press, May …Read More 2024.
Borrowed Light (poetry chapbook). Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press, 2019.
Belles Letters II: Short Fiction by Alabama Women (co-edited, with Don Noble). Livingston Press, 2017.
Little Wanderer (poems). Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2016.
Tell the World You’re a Wildflower (short story collection). The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Circling Faith Southern Women on Spirituality, co-edited with Wendy Reed, The University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Bottle Tree (poems), WordTech Press, 2010.
All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality, co-edited with Wendy Reed, The University of Alabama Press, 2006.
Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, NewSouth Books, Fall 2003. (SEBA Poetry Book of the Year finalist, 2003).

Awards: Alabama Poet Laureate, 2017-2021. Commissioned by Governor Kay Ivey on November 1, 2017.
Alabama State Poetry Society, Poet of the Year, 2020.
Rhoda Ellison Lecture, Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama, April 2015.
Druid City Literary Arts Award …Read More 2015, presented by the Tuscaloosa Arts Council.
Recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship, 2008.

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