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.

Authors directly submit their entries via this form, including publications, availability for programs and workshops, and contact information. Easily searchable and updated, the directory will grow and become more valuable with each entry.

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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Richard Modlin

Hometown: Owens Cross Roads, Alabama Lives in: Owens Cross Roads, Alabama

Contact Information

  • Email: richard@richardmodlin.com

Address:

    • 250 Hartside Road SE
      Owens Cross Roads, Alabama 35763
      United States
  • Phone: (256) 683-3182
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email, Form on My Website

 

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About Richard Modlin

Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction

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

Bio: Richard Modin is the author of three novels, two travel memoirs, several award-winning articles, short stories, and poems, which have appeared in the Birmingham Arts Journal, Sea Frontiers, Bird Watchers Digest and other publications. Modlin is a former President of the Alabama Writers’ Cooperative. former board member of the Huntsville Literary Association, and member of the AWC and AWF. He holds graduate degrees from the Universities of Wisconsin and Connecticut and has attended the Iowa …Read More Summer Writing Festival. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and lives on the side of a mountain in North Alabama.

Works: Malachite Lion, Hartside Publishing, 2008; Chasing Wings, Hartside Publishing, 2007; Newfound Freedom, Hartside Publishing, 2013; Patriot Apprentice, Hartside Publishing, 2013; Battle at the Rim, Hartside Publishing, 2017; Shot Through Time, Hartside …Read More Publishing, 2023.

Awards:

Chasing Wings, Finalist ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award, 2008
Newfound Freedom, Finalist ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award, 2014

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