Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of fourteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Recent publications include: a book of poems, In Garments Worn by Lindens , a novel, Periodic Companions , and a book of short fiction, The Book of Moments . Her work has appeared in journals such as Conjunctions , A Public Space , New American Writing , The Brooklyn Rail , and in anthologies including: The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press), The...See more

Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, teacher and editor. She is author of fourteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Recent publications include: a book of poems, In Garments Worn by Lindens , a novel, Periodic Companions , and a book of short fiction, The Book of Moments . Her work has appeared in journals such as Conjunctions , A Public Space , New American Writing , The Brooklyn Rail , and in anthologies including: The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, UK), and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton). Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. She co-edited the anthology I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2013) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel (Nightboat, 2020). Honors and awards include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection The Scented Fox , and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory . She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College. See less