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Jenny Browne

South Texas

Jenny Browne is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her most recent collection is Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems. A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas, she has received the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and two Fulbright Fellowships from the US/UK Fulbright Foundation. Her poems and essays have appeared widely, most recently in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Oxford American, Poem a Day, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, The New York Times and The Slowdown. She served concurrent terms as the 2016-2018 City of San Antonio Poet Laureate, and the 2017 State of Texas Poet Laureate. In 2023, she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.



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