Communion

TJ Beitelman is a writer and teacher living in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of a novel, JOHN THE REVELATOR (2013), and two collections of poetry: IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION (2012) and AMERICANA (2015), all from Black Lawrence Press. His stories and poems have appeared widely in literary magazines, and he's received fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Cultural Alliance of Greater Birmingham. He taught writing and literature at Virginia Tech, where he earned an M.A. in English, and at the University of Alabama, where he earned an MFA in creative writing and also edited Alabama Heritage and Black Warrior Review. He currently directs the creative writing program at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham.