Fleda Brown

Photo by Jerry Beasley. Courtesy of the poet.

Fleda Brown is the author of ten collections of poems, including Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (2021), won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press and The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems (2017), selected by Ted Kooser for the University of Nebraska poetry series. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is also the author of the memoir, Mortality, with Friends (Wayne State University Press, 2021). She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware and was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007.