Jericho Brown

Born Nelson Demery III and was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana,[3] Brown later changed his name and graduated from Dillard University, where he was initiated as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, through the Beta Phi chapter, in the fall of 1995. He also graduated from the University of New Orleans with an MFA, and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D.

Brown was a teaching fellow in the English department at the University of Houston from 2002 to 2007, a visiting professor at San Diego State University's MFA program in spring 2009, and an assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego. He has also taught at numerous conferences and workshops, including the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa. He is an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.[4] Previously, he worked as a speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans.[5]

In 2011, Brown received the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[1] His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, The New Yorker, Enkare Review, and The Best American Poetry. He serves as an Assistant Editor at Callaloo.[6]

His first book, Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008), won the American Book Award.[7] His second book, a book of poetry titled The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014), won the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[8]

Brown's third book, a collection of poems titled The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), garnered widespread critical acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[9]

Brown is gay and HIV-positive.[10]

• 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry[11]
• 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship
• 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry[1]
• 2009 American Book Award
• 2009 Whiting Award
• 2009–2010 fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Books

• Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2008). ISBN 978-1-930974-79-1
• The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). ISBN 978-1-55659-457-1
• The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). ISBN 9781556594861

Poems

• "Thrive", Oxford American, October 2014
• "Elegy", Rumpus, May 2009
• "Rick", AGNI, March 2007
• "To Be Seen", The Missouri Review

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• Official website
• 'Love in Contemporary American Gay Male Poetry in the Works of Richard Siken, Eduardo C Corral and Jericho Brown' Simeon Kronenberg, Cordite Poetry Review (2015).
• "Profile at The Whiting Foundation"
• "Danger by Desire: A Conversation between Jericho Brown & James Allen Hall", Boxcar Poetry Review
• "Naming Each Place"
• Until the Fulcrum Tips: A Conversation with Rita Dove and Jericho Brown, The Best American Poetry
• "Jericho Brown Presents The Phantastique 5", The Best American Poetry