Alabama Authors Directory

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Alan Samry

Hometown: Fairhope, AL Lives in: Fairhope, AL

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About Alan Samry

Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry

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

Bio: Alan Samry is a writer, librarian, and public historian. He is the author of Mapping Fairhope, Clay City Tile, and Stump the Librarian, a memoir and history of leg amputees. He is co-author and co-photographer with Gabriel Gold-Vukson of Fairhope: Past & Present. Alan is a graduate of Cape Cod Community College and serves students, faculty, and staff as the part-time librarian on the Fairhope campus of Coastal Alabama Community College. Alan is a first generation undergraduate and obtained …Read More his bachelor’s degree from the University of South Alabama. He was further schooled in the south when he obtained a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Spalding University and a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alabama. A Fairhope resident since 2005, Alan enjoys riding his bike, reading, and writing around and about Fairhope.

Works: Books
Fairhope: Past and Present. Arcadia Publishing, 2023.
Mapping Fairhope, Legends, Locals, & Landmarks, Fairhope: Alan Samry, 2022.
Clay City Tile: Frank Brown and the Company that Built Fairhope. Fairhope: Stump the Presses, 2020.
Stump the …Read More Librarian: A Writer’s Book of Leg. Point Clear, Intellect Publishing, 2018
Essays
“In a Foot of Covid-19 Clay are the Feats of Library Writing Communities”
Libraries: Culture, History, & Society, 2021
“The Flo of Old Fairhope”
Birmingham Arts Journal, 2021
“One Nation, Divisible”
Dead Mule School of Southern Lit., 2013
“The Last Peg Leg”
Birmingham Arts Journal, 2013
“Shedding our Shells”
Obsession: An Online Literary Magazine, 2012
“Three Legs of a Bedroom Life”
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2008
Poems
“Beauty Scars”
Oracle Fine Arts Review, 2016
“On the Corner of Fourth and York…”
“Walking Aids”
Kaleidoscope Magazine, 2015
Review
“My Exaggerated Life, Pat Conroy”
Alabama Writers Forum, 2018

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