About

 

Jamey Hatley is a native of Memphis, TN who believes fiercely in the power of sweet tea and stories to heal. Her writing has appeared in the Oxford American and Torch. She has attended the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshop and received scholarships to the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In 2006 she won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award for a Novel-in-Progress, which is still in progress. After an undergraduate degree in marketing and a masters in journalism, she received her MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University. She makes her home in New Orleans, LA.