D B Tipmore Author

D. B. Tipmore (Author)
D. B. TIPMORE began jotting down Christmas poems in a Big Chief tablet at the age of six and has been writing ever since. After graduation from the University of Michigan, he studied cultural anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and then began a career in journalism at The Village Voice. He has contributed articles to local and national magazines while serving in administrative positions at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida, and Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama. Born in Indiana, he has also lived in Venezuela, Morocco, London, Paris, and Saudi Arabia. My Little Town is his first published work of nonfiction. He currently calls Selma, Alabama, home.

Frank Williams (Photographer)
Frank C. Williams is a career lensman who has been the university photographer at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) for over thirty years. Originally from Valdosta, Georgia, Williams’s career includes stints at various Southern newspapers and subjects ranging from the first space shuttle launches to visits from President Ronald Reagan. He is an active member of the University Photographers’ Association of America, through which Williams discusses what’s new in photography as well as state-of-the-art equipment and techniques. Williams resides in the small community of Wetumpka, Alabama, and has three children: Nathan, Matthew, and Sarah Grace.