Staff
Richard Kent Evans studied at Auburn University and Texas Tech before earning a Ph.D. in history from Temple University. He is the author of MOVE: An American Religion, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. An experienced writer and communicator, Evans served on the faculty at Haverford College in Pennsylvania and as the project coordinator for
Jordan Mahaffey is from the Black Belt and Wiregrass regions of Alabama. She studied history and anthropology as an undergraduate and earned an M.B.A. from The University of West Alabama (UWA). For her work studying handmade and folk grave markers in Alabama’s Black Belt region, she received the Association for Gravestone Studies Student Conference Scholarship and UWA’s David Warren Bowen Prize for Undergraduate Writing and Research.
Marlin Barton is from the Black Belt region of Alabama. His newest book is a novel, Children of Dust, published in September of 2021. He’s published two earlier novels, The Cross Garden and A Broken Thing, and three collections of short stories, The Dry Well, Dancing by the River, and Pasture Art. His stories have appeared in a
Tina Mozelle Braziel won the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for Known by Salt (Anhinga Press). She co-authored Glass Cabin (Pulley Press) with her husband, writer James Braziel. An Alabama Poetry Delegate, she has been awarded a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, an artist residency at Hot Springs National Park,
As a second-generation educator, Dr. DuBose has served as a teacher, a mentor, and a curriculum supervisor for over 39 years and has instructed students pre-K through graduate studies. Dr. DuBose has developed curriculum, museum programming, and professional development training modules throughout her career and has conducted professional development for educators throughout the state, nation, and internationally.
Kathleen (Kate) Duthu is a former prosecutor, family law attorney, and law school instructor who returned to her love of creative writing to earn her M.A. in English from the University of South Alabama. A Virginia native and almost thirty year Gulf Coast resident, she has her B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and her J.D. from the College of William and Mary
Glenny Brock attended Birmingham City Schools, then graduated from John Carroll Catholic High School in 1995. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) in 1999 and worked as a journalist for more than a decade, serving as editor-in-chief of Birmingham Weekly and the founding editor of Weld for Birmingham.
