Jacqueline Allen Trimble lives and writes in Montgomery, Alabama. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow (2017, 2023). In addition to her academic work, her poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry Magazine, The Louisville Review, The Offing, The Rumpus, Salvation South, and Poet Lore and has also been featured by the Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day twice, Poetry Daily, Poem-a Day, and Duke University’s Hart Leadership Program Poem of the Week. Her work is included in the following anthologies: This is The Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (Little Brown, 2024), a collection of the best of contemporary African American poetry; All Night, All Day: Life, Death and Angels, (Madville Publishing, 2023), a collection of poems and essays about angels, The Beautiful: Poet’s Reimagine a Nation (Galaula Arts), a collection of visual poems from each U.S. state and a traveling exhibit, The Night’s Magician (Negative Capability Press), a collection of eighty poems by contemporary writers on the moon, and essays on writing appear in “A Woman Explains How Learning Poetry is Poetry and Not Magic Made Her a Poet“ Southern Writers on Writing (University Press of Mississippi), essays from twenty-six contemporary Southern writers, and Old Enough,(UGA Press, 2024) a collection of essays on aging and creativity by women artists. Trimble earned a B.A. from Huntingdon College and the M.A. andPh.D.in English from the University of Alabama. She is Professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University. She’ll be appearing at Word of South with the poet Ashley Jones.
Jacqueline Trimble
