Web Page Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown is the author of “The Tradition,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His first book, “Please,” won the American Book Award and his second book, “The New Testament,” won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Brown is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Time and The Best American Poetry anthology series. Brown is a professor and the director of the creative writing program at Emory University. He is the editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice and Skill,” which will be featured at the 2023 National Book Festival.