Jeff Weddle is a poet, short story writer and small press historian living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The Alabama Beat Poet Laureate (2024-2026), his books include the Eudora Welty Prize winning Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press (University Press of Mississippi, 2007), When Giraffes Flew: Short Stories (Southern Yellow Pine, 2015), and poetry collections Comes to This (Nixes Mate, 2017) Heart of the Broken World (Nixes Mate, 2017) Citizen Relent (Unlikely Books, 2019), A Puncher’s Chance (Rust Belt Press, 2019), Advice for Cannibals (Poetic Justice, 2021), Driving the Lost Highway (Uncollected Press, 2023), Letter to Xhevdet Bajraj (Uncollected Press, 2025), and others. His most recent volume is The Things We Do to Protect Our Own (Meat for Tea Press, 2025). His work has also appeared in Spanish and Albanian translation. A former radio disc jockey, fry cook, Tae Kwon Do teacher, newspaper reporter, and public library director, Jeff teaches in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. His website can be found at jeffweddle.com/
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