Fleda Brown is poet laureate of Delaware and the author of four collections of poems: Fishing With Blood (winner of the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer's Award, Purdue University Press, 1988), Do Not Peel the Birches (Purdue, 1993), The Devil's Child (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999), and Breathing In, Breathing Out, (winner of the Philip Levine Prize, Anhinga Press, 2002). She also has a limited edition book of poems and images, The Eleusinian Mysteries MS, with Norman Sasowsky (Moment Press, 1992) and a chapbook, The Earliest House (Yarrow, 1993). Her poems appear in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Southern Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, and other journals, and they have been used as texts for several prizewinning musical compositions. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. Her scholarly publications include essays on William Dean Howells and Mark Twain, as well as on D.H. Lawrence and other contemporary British writers. She is co-editor of Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence, published in 1988 by G.K. Hall. She has also written on teaching poetry and on the craft of writing. She currently directs the Graduate Student Poets in the Schools program at the University of Delaware .
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