Fleda Brown

About Fleda

Fleda Brown’s third collection of memoir-essays, Mortality, with Friends was published by Wayne State University Press this fall. Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, essays with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, came out in 2013 from Green Writers Press, and Driving With Dvorak was published in 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press. 

Her essays have won the New Letters and the Ohio State Univ/ The Journal awards for creative nonfiction. Her tenth collection of poems, Flying Through a Hole in the Storm  (2021) won the Hollis Summers Prize from Ohio University Press. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems, chosen by Ted Kooser for the University of Nebraska poetry series in 2017. 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 professor emerita at the University of Delaware, where she taught for 27 years and directed the Poets in the Schools program. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001-07.