Harry Brown

A native of Baltimore, Harry Brown grew up in Hillsborough, NC. After taking an A.B. degree from Davidson College and an M.A. degree from Appalachian State University—both in English—he served two years in the US Army Intelligence Corps, and then taught two years at Lees-McRae College. Having been inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at the conclusion of his doctoral course work, Brown received a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University in 1971. Since 1970 he has taught American literature and creative writing at Eastern Kentucky University, where he has also co-directed seminars funded by the Kentucky Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities, directed the summer Creative Writing Conference, and served as Poetry Editor for Scripsit and The Chaffin Journal. His poem “Felt Along the Blood—A Triptych” won Kentucky Poetry Review’s Blaine R. Hall Award, Green’s Magazine awarded his poem “In Deed and Truth” the Warren Keith Wright Prize, and the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts made Brown the first recipient of the Mary Anderson Senior Fellowship. In 1995 EKU awarded him a Foundation Professorship. Brown co-edited God's Plenty: Modern Kentucky Writers (Penkevill), and has published four collections of poems with Mellen Poetry Press: Paint Lick Idyll, Measuring Man, Ego’s Eye, and Everything Is Its Opposite. Currently he is working on a fifth collection tentatively titled In Some Households the King Is Soul: Poems. Harry Brown and his wife Alice have two grown children, Jennifer Leigh and Benjamin Thomas, and have lived for some twenty-five years on a farm in Paint Lick, Kentucky.

(Source: "About the author" note in "Felt Along the Blood")