Jacqueline Allen Trimble
Poet Laureate of Alabama, 2026-2030
Jacqueline Allen Trimble is an African American poet and the author of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Poems (NewSouth Books, 2022) and American Happiness: New Poems (NewSouth Books, 2016), winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize.
A National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and a Cave Canem Fellow, Trimble is a professor of English at Alabama State University and lives in Montgomery.
In 2026, Trimble was appointed the poet laureate of Alabama.