About

Brandon Jordan Brown is a 2014 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, winner of the 2016 Orison Anthology Poetry Prize, a scholarship recipient from The Sun, and a former PEN in the Community poetry instructor.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in West Branch; RHINO Poetry; The Journal; Sycamore Review; Scalawag; Yemassee; Moss: A Journal of the Pacific Northwest; Birmingham Poetry Review; Winter Tangerine Review; Tinderbox Poetry Journal; Grist; Forklift, Ohio; Radar Poetry and elsewhere.

A frequent collaborator on hybrid-media projects with filmmakers, composers, and artists, Brandon’s poems have been performed by musical artists, and his poetry-films have screened at festivals across the United States. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he currently lives in Portland, Oregon.