Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging

About Carmen Agra DeedyCarolyn ShererGail AndrewsPatricia FosterPatricia GainesSara Garden Armstrong

Jay Lamar worked in arts and humanities outreach at Auburn University where she was the founding director of the Alabama Center for the Book before becoming executive director of the Alabama Bicentennial Commission. She has been a writer and editor for almost thirty years and is coeditor of The Remembered Gate: Memoirs by Alabama Writers.She lives in Auburn Alabama. Jennifer Horne served as the twelfth Poet Laureate of Alabama 20172021. She is the author of three collections of poemsa short story collection anda biographyOdyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange Tale of Sara Mayfield Author and has edited or coedited five volumes of poetry essays and stories related to the South. Horne has taught creative writing in a variety of settings and has been recognized forher work by the Alabama State Council on the Arts the Alabama State Poetry Society and the Tuscaloosa Arts Council among others. She lives in Cottondale Alabama. Carolyn Sherer is an American photographer interested in issues of identity. She works in series making individual images to create a composite portrait of often-marginalized communities. Her past work has featured people with disabilities people living with HIV and multiple projects related to the LGBTQ community. She lives in Homewood Alabama. Katie Lamar Jackson is a freelance writer and photographer with four decades of experience working as a journalist author editorand educator. Her work has been published in myriad newspapers magazines and essay collections and covers a diverse array of topicsgardening wildlife the environment arts and culture history biography and travel among them. She has authored or coauthored eight nonfiction books. After more than twenty-five years at Auburn University she retired as communications director for Auburn's agricultural and natural resource programs. She currently lives in Opelika Alabama where she is working on a variety of creative nonfiction projects. Emmy-winning writer and producer Wendy Reeds work includes regional documentaries and the TV series Bookmark and Discovering Alabama. Her books include An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone and Other Stories and All Out of Faith and Circling Faith. She has taught in Honors Colleges and is passionate about compelling science-writing critical thinking combatting disinformation and books. Various Universities and the Alabama State Council on the Arts have awarded her writing fellowships. Currently she is a director at UABs Alabama BRAIN Lab.