Alabama Authors Directory

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Ken Autrey

Hometown: Auburn, Alabama Lives in: Auburn, Alabama

Contact Information

  • Email: autreyken@gmail.com

Address:

    • 244 Woodfield Drive
      Auburn, Alabama 36830
      United States
  • Phone: (843) 409-2788
  • Preferred Contact Method: Email

 

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About Ken Autrey

Genres: Poetry

Available for: Readings, Workshops

Bio: Ken Autrey lives in Auburn, Alabama. For many years he was a Professor of English at Francis Marion University in South Carolina. His work has appeared in Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Texas Review, and many other journals. He has published three chapbooks: Pilgrim (Main Street Rag), Rope Lesson (Longleaf Press), and The Wake of the Year (Solomon and George). His full collection, Circulation, was published by Dos Madres Press in 2023. He is a …Read More coordinator of the Third Thursday Poetry Series at Auburn University.

Works: Poems published in Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, Poem, Poetry Northwest, South Carolina Review, Southern Poetry Review, Tar River Review, Texas Review, and many other journals.
Pilgrims (a chapbook), Main Street Rag, 2010.
Rope Lesson (a …Read More chapbook), winner of Longleaf Press Chapbook contest, 2013.
The Wake of the Year (a chapbook), with artist Gloe Herbert Dyne, Solomon and George Publishers, 2016.
Penelope in Repose , Winner of Helen Kay Chapbook Prize, Evening Street Press, 2022.
Circulation, Dos Madres Press, 2023.

Awards:

Winner of Longleaf Press Chapbook Contest, 2013.
Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship, 2019.
Winner of Helen Kay Chapbook Prize, 2022.

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