Andrea Brown is a poet, author, editor, educator, public speaker, blogger, and avid birder.

A former resident of downtown Manhattan who lived a block from the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Brown's eyewitness account of the attack and its aftermath won several awards and is cited in the Library of Congress Online Research Guide to the Poetry of 9/11.

Brown's new poetry collection, September 12, is available for purchase online and in your favorite bookstore.

Brown is the author of three previous poetry collections: The Disheveled Bed, Brook & Rainbow, Domestic Karma, and American Fraktur.

Brown taught creative writing at Pomona College after moving to the West Coast and was Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal.

Brown joined The Word Works and serves as Series Editor for The Washington Prize, their longest-running poetry book contest and imprint!