Jacqueline Allen Trimble lives and writes in Montgomery, Alabama. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, a Cave Canem Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow. In addition to her academic work, her poetry has appeared in various journals including The Louisville Review, The Offing, and Poet Lore. Her work was included in the anthology The Night's Magician (Negative Capability Press), a collection of eighty poems by contemporary writers on the moon, and an essay on writing, "A Woman Explains How Learning Poetry is Not Magic Made Her a Poet" appears in Southern Writers on Writing (University Press of Mississippi), an anthology of essays by twenty-six contemporary Southern writers. She has ventured into television and wrote five episodes for Die Testament, a South African soap opera that streamed on Netwerk24 in fall of 2019. Published by NewSouth Books, American Happiness, her debut collection, was named the Best Book of 2016 by Seven Sisters Book Awards and won the 2016 Balcones Poetry Prize. Jennifer Horne, poet laureate of Alabama, wrote about the collection, "Her grace is in the anger distilled to the bitter draft you savor as it bites," and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, the 2018 Harper Lee Award Winner for Alabama's Distinguished Writer said, "I longed for her kind of poetry, these cut-to-the flesh poems, this verse that sings the old time religion of difficult truths with new courage and utter sister-beauty." Trimble, who has won numerous teaching and academic awards, holds the B.A. in English from Huntingdon College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Alabama. She is a Professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University.