Poet
Andrea Carter Brown is the author of The Disheveled Bed and two chapbooks, Domestic Karma and Brook & Rainbow, winner of the 2001 Sow’s Ear Press Chapbook Prize. Poems from her latest book, September 12, won the James Dickey Prize from Five Points, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, and the National Poet Hunt from The MacGuffin. They are cited in the Library of Congress Online Guide to the Poetry of 9/11 and have been featured at Split This Rock and on NPR. Formerly a Founding Editor of Barrow Street and Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal, she is currently Series Editor of The Word Works Washington Prize. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles, where she grows lemons, limes, oranges, and tangerines in her backyard.