About

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Tina Mozelle Braziel co-wrote Glass Cabin (Pulley Press) with her husband, writer James Braziel. A meditation on hope, on frustration, and on people’s places in the wilder parts of the world, Glass Cabin chronicles the thirteen years the Braziels spent building their home by hand on a ridge in rural Alabama. Tina has been awarded the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry for Known by Salt (Anhinga Press), an artist residency at Hot Springs National Park, and a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. As the first Eco-Poetry Fellow for Magic City Poetry Festival, she collaborated with the Cahaba River Society to create eco-poetry curriculum and videos. In 2023, she was selected to serve as an Alabama Poetry Delegate, a multi-regional service initiative implemented by Alabama’s Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones. For her Alabama Poetry Delegate Project, she partners with the Alabama Rivers Alliance to enable local poets to hold outdoor poetry workshops and to create eco-poetry films for Southern Exposure films. Tina leads poetry writing hikes for The Friends of the Locust Fork and serves on the Board of Directors of The Friends of Big Canoe Creek. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Cincinnati Review, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals. She directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for high school students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Tina holds an M.F.A in Poetry from the University of Oregon, an M.A. in Poetry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a B.A. in Intercultural Studies at the University of Montevallo.


Selected Works

POETRY: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tina-braziel

The Normal School: https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2020/4/29/two-poems-by-tina-mozelle-braziel

SWWIM: https://www.swwim.org/blog/2019/2/14/the-flowering-pear

Duende Collection: www.duendeliterary.org/tina-braziel

Looking Glass: muse.jhu.edu/article/630412/summary

Claims: poetrybreakfast.com/2016/07/15/claims-a-poem-by-tina-mozelle-braziel/

Allure: thejamesfrancoreview.com/2015/02/23/poetry-by-tina-mozelle-braziel/

This Is a Way of Naming: steeltoereview.com/2015/03/30/this-is-a-way-of-naming-by-tina-mozelle-brazielle/

Birding: poetrybreakfast.com/2016/08/10/birding-a-poem-by-tina-mozelle-braziel/

I’ve Learned: www.pidgeonholes.com/2018/05/two-poems-3/


Publicity

UAB Magazine

Crab Orchard Review: https://issuu.com/craborchardreview/docs/book_review_supplement_summer_2019?fbclid=IwAR2D6XUD2sGid6MTcw5hvOt98hq7GsyuGOnMgZugNxPGAtz5CK6J-9i2niw

The Scores: https://thescores.org.uk/tina-mozelle-braziel/

The Normal School: https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2019/2/15/a-normal-interview-with-tina-mozelle-braziel

WBRC: http://www.wbrc.com/2019/03/08/dark-salt-sisters-al-poets-identity-relationships-celebrating-differences/?fbclid=IwAR2XV_lhbsXYyZ6ffg_79EpopBf7kFr8uIUeLHEmV1BijFYZlFvp946H1YQ

UAB News: https://www.uab.edu/news/campus/item/10219-two-uab-alumnae-present-dark-salt-sisters-book-tour

First  Draft: https://www.writersforum.org/news_and_reviews/review_archives.html/article/2018/11/20/known-by-salt

Pigeon Holes: http://www.pidgeonholes.com/2018/10/weird-words-with-tina-mozelle-braziel/

Iron City Ink: https://ironcity.ink/neck-of-the-woods/southside/uab-poet-wins-prize-but-sticks-to-her-working-class-roots322/

B-Metro: http://b-metro.com/personal-space-6/34351/

Irene Latham: https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/2016/06/rooted-by-thirst-by-tina-mozelle-braziel.html

UAB Spotlight: http://www.uab.edu/cas/news/faculty/item/6947-three-questions-award-winning-poet-tina-mozelle-brazielhttp://www.fresnostatenews.com/2018/01/08/alabama-author-wins-2017-levine-prize-for-poetry/


Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEbQ5oZUp4E?rel=0%5D