Andrea Carter Brown's latest collection of award-winning poetry, September 12 (The Word Works, 2021), was published for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. September 12 won the 2022 IPPY Silver Medal in Poetry. She is previously the author of Domestic Karma (Finishing Line Press, 2018), The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry Press, 2006), and Brook & Rainbow (winner of the 2001 Sow’s Ear Press Chapbook Prize). Her poetry has also won awards from Five Points, River Styx,The MacGuffin, Thin Air and PSA, among others, and is cited in the Library of Congress Online Guide to the Poetry of 9/11. Formerly a founding editor of Barrow Street and Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal, she has been Series Editor of the Washington Prize since 2017. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles, where she grows lemons, limes, oranges, and tangerines in her back yard. For more information, please visit her website: www.andreacarterbrown.com.

Website: www.andreacarterbrown.com

Twitter Username: @AndreaBrownPoet

Publications

• September 12 , The Word Works (September 1, 2021)
• Domestic Karma , Finishing Line Press (October 15, 2018)
• The Disheveled Bed , CavanKerry Press (March 1, 2006)
• Brook & Rainbow , The Sow's Ear Poetry Review (August 1, 2001)

Awards

• IPPY Silver Medal in Poetry(2022)
• James Dickey Prize from Five Points(2012)
• Pudding House Chapbook Competition(2011)
• River Styx International Poetry Prize(2004)
• National Poet Hunt Poetry Competition (2002)
• Sow's Ear Press Chapbook Competition(2000)
• River Oak Review Poetry Prize(1999)
• Thin Air Poetry Prize(1998)
• PSA - Gustav Davidson Memorial Award(1992)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry