Jacqueline Allen Trimble is the Poet Laureate of Alabama, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Fellow, and a two-time Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow (2017, 2023). Published by NewSouth Books, American Happiness, her debut poetry collection, won the 2016 Balcones Poetry Prize. How to Survive the Apocalypse, her second poetry collection, was published by NewSouth Books, an imprint of UGA Press, in August 2022 and was listed as one of the top ten best poetry books of 2022 by New York Public Library.  She is Professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.