Deborah Brown

Deborah Brown’s book of poems, Walking the Dog’s Shadow, is the 2010 winner of the A. J. Poulin Jr. Award from BOA Editions, as well as the winner of the NHLA award for “Outstanding Book of Poetry," 2011. Her second book, The Human Hall is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2018. Brown is a translator, with Richard Jackson and Susan Thomas of +Last Voyage: Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli+ (Red Hen Press, 2010) and an editor, with Maxine Kumin and Annie Finch, of Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics (Univ. of Arkansas Press, 2005) Her poems have appeared in Margie, Rattle, The Alaska Quarterly, Stand, The Mississippi Review and others. Brown is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester where she won an award for Excellence in Teaching. She lives in Warner, New Hampshire, with her husband George Brown and four cats.

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Pushcart (Poetry) 2013

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