Halley Cotton
“Anyone who’s visited Birmingham can tell you there’s just something different here. It’s the city that welcomes you no matter who you are or where you come from. Birmingham is the home you never expected and the family you didn’t know you needed. Birmingham is all of us. ”
Halley Cotton completed her M.A. in English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the managing editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review, poetry editor for NELLE, and the founding director of the SPARK Writing Festival. Her work has appeared in places such as The Greensboro Review, Poetry South, and Smokelong Quarterly, among others. Cotton teaches freshman composition and literature courses at UAB. When she’s not busy kayaking or finding four-leaf clovers, she’s studying folklore and writing/reading poetry.