Fleda Brown

Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and was raised in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She earned her PhD in English, specializing in American literature, from the University of Arkansas,

Brown is the author of ten poetry collections, including The End of the Clockwork Universe (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025) and The Woods Are on Fire: New and Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). She is also the author of the memoir Mortality, with Friends 
(Wayne State University Press, 2021)

Brown’s awards include a Pushcart Prize. She served as poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007. A professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she began teaching in 1978 and founded the Poets in the Schools program, she currently teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan.