Jacqueline "Jackie" Trimble is an American poet, from Montgomery, Alabama. She is also a professor at Alabama State University. Biography After discovering the writings of Edgar Allen Poe and T. S. Eliot she began writing poetry at high school, winning awards. Trimble received a number of commissions, including one for a narrative poem celebrating the gift of a wooden toilet seat for which she was paid at a dollar a line. After achieving an MA and PhD at the University of Alabama, she headed the Department of Languages and Literature at Huntingdon College. Trimble is now head of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University. She is the president of the Alabama Writers' Forum and sits on the planning committee of the FAME Foundation in Montgomery, Alabama. In 2004, she received the Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work on "Confounded Identities: Race, Gender, Culture in Adrienne Kennedy in One Act."
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