Fleda Brown

Fleda Brown is the author of eleven full-length collections, including The End of the Clockwork Universe (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming); Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (Ohio University Press, 2021), which won the Hollis Summers Prize and received a Foreword INDIE award; the chapbook Doctor of the World (2025), winner of the Finishing Line Press Chapbook Contest; and the memoir Mortality, with Friends (Wayne State University Press, 2021), recipient of an MIPA award and the Midwest Book Award in memoir. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry; has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award; and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007. (updated 10/2025)