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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Donna Geise

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

Contact Information

  • Email: dgeise81@gmail.com

Address:

    • 7510 Hadleigh Crest Drive Southeast
      Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763
      United States
  • Phone: (205) 242-9414
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About Donna Geise

Genres: Poetry

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

Bio: Donna Geise began writing after her recent retirement as an English Literature and Composition teacher. Her poetry–often free verse, but sometimes fixed forms such as sestinas and villanelles–is imagery-rich and often based on childhood experiences, past and present relationships in small community life, and the connection of nature to man. Expressing meaningfulness beyond sentimentality, creating accessible poems in a conversational tone, and the linking of sound and sense are her primary …Read More goals. She is a contributing member of several state poetry societies and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, where she has won multiple awards for her submissions. Her first poetry collection titled SEARCHING FOR A SONG will be published by 7 Points Press in the fall of 2025. She lives in Huntsville, inspired by family, friends, and Alabama’s beautiful landscape.

Works:

My first manuscript SEARCHING FOR A SONG will be published by 7 Points Press in August of 2025.

Awards: Many poems have won awards in state poetry societies and in the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Some of these poems have been published in state anthologies. This year AMEND was chosen to be used as an invocation at the National …Read More Federation of State Poetry Societies Convention.

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