Carla Jean Whitley

Carla Jean Whitley is a writer, editor and teacher based in Birmingham, Alabama. Carla Jean, a craft beer enthusiast, joined women’s craft beer education group Hops for Honeys in 2010. She volunteers with literacy organizations and teaches journalism at the University of Alabama and Samford University. Her favorite yoga pose is bakasana, and her favorite cats are orange. She is the author of Birmingham Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Magic City, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music and Balancing Act: Yoga Essays. Connect with her at carlajeanwhitley.com.