Jimmy Redd

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About Jimmy Redd

Insurance Broker: Dr. Jimmy Redd, along with his father Rev. Gary Redd, sell Health, Life, & Dental insurance in Starkville, Booneville and all of MS, TN, AL, and other states from coast to coast. They contract with most major insurance companies, such as Mutual of Omaha, United Health Care, Aetna, Ambetter, and Cigna. They are an independently operated insurance company who specializes in low income, under 65, and Medicare sales. Pest Control Owner: Dr. Jimmy Redd owns Feel Good Pest Solutions, LLC, based in Starkville, MS, which specializes in general pest control and wildlife removal-Professional Musician: Cover artist (piano man) of Classic Rock, R&B, Motown, and all other genres. + songs. Plays regularly at weddings, parties, restaurants, churches and nightclubs in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Nebraska. Band is TOO PROUD TO BEG. See facebook.com/tooproud to beg or -Editor and scholar: Founder of the Crooked Letter Interview Series, featuring contemporary Mississippi authors in literary magazines such as the Prairie Schooner. 18 authors have already agreed to be interviewed for the series. Poet T.R. Hummer and novelist Richard Ford have been featured since the series's inception. Redd is the Blog Editor for the Prairie Schooner. He has also worked as an Editorial Assistant for the Prairie Schooner, Jabberwock Review, and Illuminations-Teaching: Taught for major public universities, community colleges, and private-for-profit colleges. His expertise is in teaching Creative Writing, English Composition, Literature, and Developmental English classes. 8 years experience-Online Teaching: Blackboard, ecollege, angel, Moodle certified. 6 years exp-Writer: James Madison Redd’s collection of stories, Taking the Cure, was a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award and one story was nominated for inclusion in Best New American Voices 2009. He is a winner of the Mari Sandoz / Prairie Schooner award. His fiction, poetry, and scholarship have or will appear in Fifth Wednesday, Fiction Southeast, Deep South Magazine, Penwood Review, Parting Gifts, Subliminal Interiors, Poetry for the Masses, Prairie Schooner: Briefly Noted, and other literary journals -Experience in Publishing: Prairie Schooner Publicist, African Poetry Book Series, Publicist