I’m a writer, editor, and teacher, and I enjoy connecting with readers and other writers. In November 2017, I was commissioned Alabama Poet Laureate, for a four-year term.

I’ve written several collections of poems: Borrowed Light, my new book; Little Wanderer, a collection of road and travel poems; and Bottle Tree, poems set in the southern U.S. My short story collection, Tell the World You’re a Wildflower is a series of loosely interwoven stories in the voices of southern women and girls.

I love to edit collections as well. My first book, Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets, brought together over 100 poems about farming and gardening in the South. The two books I co-edited with Wendy Reed, All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality, have received acclaim for the high quality of the essays and their contribution to discussions about religion and spirituality in the American South. My most recent edited book, Belles’ Letters II, I co-edited with my husband, Don Noble; it’s a collection of short stories by Alabama women.

My next book will be a biography of the writer Sara Mayfield, forthcoming in 2022 from The University of Alabama Press.