James and Tina Mozelle Braziel are a husband-and-wife writing team. Their book of poems about life in the glass cabin they are building by hand in rural Alabama will be released in spring 2024 by Pulley Press.
James is the author of the story collection, This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt Fiction Award (Livingston Press). Ditch-Walking is about the people on the Cumberland Plateau in Alabama. He is the author of two novels about a future environmental disaster in the Southern US—Birmingham, 35 Miles and Snakeskin Road (Bantam). He teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. You can reach him at southverve at gmail.com. You can find out more about his stories, essays, poems, and novels at jamesbraziel.com.
Tina Mozelle is the author of Known by Salt, winner of the Philip Levine Poetry Prize (Anhinga Press), and a chapbook, Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press). She writes about rivers, growing up in a trailer park, and raising tadpoles and bees. Both collections feature poems about building the glass cabin. You can find out more about her poetry and essays at tinamozellebraziel.com.