Jeff Weddle

Jeff Weddle is a poet and writer living in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In 2024, the National Beat Poetry Foundation named him the inaugural State of Alabama Beat Poet Laureate (2024-2026). He won the 2007 Eudora Welty Prize for Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press, and has also received honors for his fiction and poetry. Jeff teaches in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama.