Jack B. Bedell is professor of English and Coordinator of Creative Writing at Southeastern Louisiana University where he also edits Louisiana Literature and directs the Louisiana Literature Press. His latest collections are Ghost Forest (Mercer University Press, 2024), Against the Woods' Dark Trunks (Mercer University Press, 2022), Color All Maps New (Mercer University Press, 2021), Rock Garden (Daily Drunk Press, 2021), and No Brother, This Storm (Mercer University Press, 2018). His work has appeared in the Southern Review, HAD, Radar Poetry, The Fourth River, Terrain.org, Construction, Grist, Sugar House, Shenandoah, Pidgeonholes, Heavy Feather and other journals. Dr. Bedell is the recipient of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Individual Achievement in the Humanities Award and the Governor’s Award for Artistic Achievement. He was appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to serve as Louisiana Poet Laureate, 2017–2019.
Creative Writing (poetry, flash fiction, and flash creative nonfiction), American Literature, Contemporary Literature, and Publishing/Editing
