Raised in Arkansas and a longtime resident of Alabama, Jennifer Horne is a writer, editor, and teacher who explores Southern identity and experience, especially women's, through prose, poetry, fiction, and anthologies and in classrooms and workshops across the South. Her latest book is Tell the World You're a Wildflower, a collection of short stories in the voices of Southern women and girls. She is the author of a poetry collection, Bottle Tree, and the editor of Working the Dirt: An Anthology of Southern Poets. With Wendy Reed, she co-edited the essay collections All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality and Circling Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality. Her story "The Other Shoe" appears in The Shoe Burnin': Stories of Southern Soul.