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By Becky Nichols
Selma-Dallas County Public Library

Join us as we welcome Jay Lamar, Jennifer Horne and Katie Lamar Jackson to the Lunch at the Library event on Thursday, Feb. 27.

The three distinguished writers have collaborated on the book, Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging, published by New South books.

Jay has 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.

Horne served as the twelfth Poet Laureate of Alabama, 2017-2021. She is the author of three collections of poems, a short story collection, and a biography, Odyssey 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 for her work by the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Alabama State Poetry Society, and the Tuscaloosa Arts Council, among others.

Jackson is a freelance writer and photographer with four decades of experience working as a journalist, author, editor, and educator. Her work has been published in myriad newspapers, magazines, and essay collections and covers a diverse array of topics–gardening, wildlife, the environment, arts and culture, history, biography, and travel among them. After more than twenty-five years at Auburn University, she retired as communications director for Auburn’s agricultural and natural resource programs.

We hope you will make your plans to join us on February 27 for a great program, delicious food by “Alberta” and plenty of Selma fellowship! Tickets are $15.00 and reservations may be made by calling the library or email dana@selmalibrary.org.