Irene Latham

Irene Latham (born February 26, 1971 in Covington, Georgia, United States) is an American author. Latham writes primarily in the genres of poetry for adults and fiction for young readers. Latham traveled worldwide with her family before settling in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1984. She is a graduate of Hewitt-Trussville High School and earned degrees in social work from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is represented by Stimola Literary Studio.[1]

Career

Latham's first novel Leaving Gee's Bend was released in January, 2010. It was a SIBA Book Award finalist, Crystal Kite Award finalist[2] ALSC Notable Children's Book Nominee,[3] Bank Street College Best Book, Kentucky Bluegrass State Finalist[4] and the 2011 Alabama Library Association Children's Book of the Year.[5] Her second novel Don't Feed the Boy was released in October, 2012. Her collection of poems What Came Before in 2007 earned a Bronze Independent Publisher Book Award,[6] and was named Alabama State Poetry Society's Book of the Year. Her latest volume of poetry The Color Lost Rooms won the Writer's Digest 19th Annual Self-Published Book Prize for Poetry.

Latham's work has been published in many literary journals and anthologies, including Einstein at the Odeon Cafe,[7] Free Lunch, PoemMemoirStory, and Whatever Remembers Us: an Anthology of Alabama Poetry.[8] She serves as poetry editor for Birmingham Arts Journal[9] and as program chairperson for Alabama Writers Conclave.[10]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Leaving Gee's Bend. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 2010. ISBN 978-1-101-17152-3.
  • Don't feed the boy. New York: Roaring Brook Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-59643-755-5. Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin.[11]

Poetry

  • Dear Wandering Wildebeest: And Other Poems from the Water Hole. 2014. ISBN 978-1-4677-1232-3.
  • When the Sun Shines on Antarctica: And Other Poems about the Frozen Continent. Millbrook Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-4677-5216-9.
  • The color of lost rooms. Birmingham, AL: Blue Rooster Press. 2010. ISBN 9780976255741.
  • What came before: poems. Mobile, AL: Negative Capability Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-942544-61-9.
  • Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Millbrook Press. 2017. ISBN 9781512404425.

References

  1. ↑ "Stimola". www.stimolaliterarystudio.com.
  2. ↑ "Crystal Kite Award Finalist".
  3. ↑ http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2011/01/notable-childrens-books-nominated-titles/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Smith, Jennifer. "Kentucky Bluegrass Award". kba.nku.edu.
  5. ↑ Godbey, Catherine (28 January 2016). "Piecing together a story: Author of "Leaving Gee's Bend" at Decatur Public Library today". Decatur Daily. Retrieved 2017-06-24.
  6. ↑ "Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results". Independent Publisher - feature.
  7. ↑ http://www.churndashpress.com/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Negative Capability Press". Negative Capability Press.
  9. ↑ "Welcome to the Birmingham Arts Journal". Birminghamartsjournal.com. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  10. ↑ "Alabama Writers Conclave". Alabama Writers Conclave. 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  11. ↑ Martin, Anne Marie (30 January 2013). "Birmingham author Irene Latham's love of zoos inspired children's book 'Don't Feed the Boy'". AL.com. Retrieved 2017-06-24.

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