Stephanie Brown, Guest Bloggers June 27 - July 3

This week we welcome Stephanie Brown as our guest blogger. Stephanie is the author of two collections of poetry, Domestic Interior (University of Pittsburgh, 2008) and Allegory of the Supermarket (University of Georgia, 1999). She was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2001 and the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in 2009. She has taught creative writing at University of California, Irvine and at the University of Redlands but has primarily made her living as a librarian and library manager. Her poems have been selected for four editions of the annual anthology, The Best American Poetry (Scribners) and her poetry and essays have been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000), Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present (Scribner's, 2003), The Grand Permission: New Writing about Motherhood and Poetics (Wesleyan U Press, 2003) and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Slope, Pool, ZYZZYVA, LIT, among others. She helped organize the Casa Romantica Reading Series in San Clemente, California from 2004-2010. She is a regional branch manager for OC Public Libraries in southern California.
Welcome, Stephanie.

-- sdh