Ramey Channell was born and grew up in Leeds, Alabama, a rural community just outside of Birmingham. She has had poetry, short stories, and children's stories published by Aura Literary Arts Review, Alabama State Poetry Society, Alabama Writers Conclave, Birmingham Arts Journal, Scholastic Press, Rivers Edge Publishing and others. Channell has received the Barksdale-Maynard Award for Fiction for her short story, "Voltus Electricalus and Strata Illuminata," The Thomas Brown Achievement Award for Poetry, and numerous awards from Alabama Writers Conclave. She has lived in New York City, Kentucky, and Louisiana, and currently lives in her hometown, Leeds, Alabama, where she is working on a second novel and a short story collection.