Raised in Arkansas and a longtime resident of Alabama, Jennifer Horne is a writer, editor, teacher, and blogger who explores Southern identity and experience, especially women’s, through prose, poetry, fiction, and anthologies and in classrooms and workshops across the South. A recipient of fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Seaside Institute in Florida, she is the editor of Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets and the author of a poetry collection, Bottle Tree. With Wendy Reed, she coedited the essay collections All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality.