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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Laura Secord
Hometown: Birmingham, AL Lives in: ,
Contact Information
- Email: mojomamma@hotmail.com
- Website: https://laurasecordmojomamma.wordpress.com/2021/06/27/an-art-a-craft-a-mystery-coming-2-2022/
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- Phone: (205) 223-6366
- Preferred Contact Method: Email, Facebook
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About Laura Secord
Genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote
Bio: Laura Secord is a poet, storyteller, teaching artist. Her novel-in-poems, AN ART, A CRAFT, A MYSTERY was awarded the 2024 Authors Award for Poetry by Alabama Library Association, and was chosen as the best Indie Historical Fiction of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews. Her poems appear in Poetry and many other journals. She’s worked as a printer, union organizer, health care activist, teacher, sex-educator and nurse practitioner in community health and HIV care. She serves as Director of Community …Read More
Works: BOOKS: An Art, a Craft, a Mystery, Livingston Press, March 2022
JOURNALS:
“Bringing the Monument Down”, What Things Cost. Arkansas University Press, March 2024
Selections from An ART, A Craft, A Mystery, Hobo Camp Review, …Read More
Awards:
2024 Author Award Poetry, Alabama Library Association, 2024
Best Indie Books of 2022, Kirkus Review, December 2022
Fifteen Minutes of Fame, Monroeville Literary Festival, March 2021
Pushcart Nomination, 2016
Fellowship, Soul Mountain Retreat, 2008
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