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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Alan May

Hometown: Florence, Alabama Lives in: Knoxville, TN

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About Alan May

Genres: Poetry

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

Bio: Alan May grew up in Florence, Alabama. He holds a BA from the University of North Alabama and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama. His poems have appeared in The Hollins Critic, The Idaho Review, The New York Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, Plume, New Orleans Review, and others. He was poetry editor for The Black Warrior Review and The Chapbook, and he is currently poetry editor at The Tennes-Sierran. He lives in Knoxville, TN, and he hosts The Beat, a poetry podcast …Read More produced by Knox County Public Library.

Works: Derelict Days in That Derelict Town: New and Uncollected Poems (BlazeVOX Books, 2025)
More Unknowns (Dead Academics, 2014)
Dead Letters (BlazeVOX Books, 2008)
Notes Toward an Apocryphal Text: Poems by Alan May, Images by Tom Wegrzynowski (Lulu and …Read More Port Silver, 2006)

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