Jeannie Thompson
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Poet and essayist Jeannie Thompson is the author of The Myth of Water: Poems from the Life of Helen Keller, The Seasons Bear Us, White for Harvest: New and Selected Poems, Witness, and How to Enter the River. Her poetry and essays on the writing life have been published in Old Enough: Southern Women Writers and Artists on Creativity and Aging, Tributaries, Creativity and Compassion, Whatever Remembers Us, High Horse, Working the Dirt, All Out of Faith, The Best of Crazyhorse, and The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume X: Alabama. In 2023 Jeanie retired as Executive Director Emerita of the Alabama Writers’ Forum and in June of that year she received the Albert B. Head Legacy Award from the Alabama State Council on the Arts for her work as a literary arts advocate and award-winning poet. Jeanie has been a poetry faculty member of Spalding University's Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing since 2002. She lives in Montgomery, Alabama.