11 Facts About Jericho Brown

Jericho Brown was born on April 14,1976 and is an American poet and writer.

Jericho Brown's poems have been published in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, and The New Yorker, among others.

Jericho Brown released his first book of prose and poetry, Please, in 2008.

Jericho Brown has won several accolades throughout his career, including a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Jericho Brown graduated from the University of New Orleans with an MFA, and from the University of Houston with a Ph.

Jericho 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.

Jericho Brown has taught at numerous conferences and workshops, including the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa.

Jericho Brown is an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 2011, Jericho Brown received the 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

Jericho Brown's 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.

Jericho Brown published his fourth book in 2023, How We Do it: Black Writers on Craft, Practice and Skill, an anthology of 31 essays and interviews from African American authors.