Laynie Browne, author of, most recently, The Scented Fox (Wave, 2007) was born and grew up in Los Angeles. She received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.F.A. from Brown University. With others, she curated poetry reading series at The Ear Inn in New York City from 1992-1995 and as a member of the Subtext Collective in Seattle from 1996-2001. She received a fellowship from the Macdowell Colony in 1992, and was awarded The Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry three times (1993-1994, in 1994-1995, and again in 1995-1996). In 1998 her work was anthologized in the book Poet's Choice, edited by former poet laureate Robert Hass. In 2000, she received a Jack Straw Writer's Program Award. She is author of seven full-length collections of poetry, a novel, and many chapbooks. Her most recent collections are Daily Sonnets Counterpath Press, 2007, and Drawing a Swan Before Memory, which won the Contemporary Poetry Series in 2005 (University of Georgia Press). She has taught poetry-in-the-schools as a visiting artist in New York City, and Seattle, and has taught creative writing at University of Washington at Bothell, Mills College and at the Poetry Center at University of Arizona. She currently lives in Tucson.
More about Daily Sonnets from Counterpath Press.
Check out a selection from Daily Sonnets in Dusie, Issue 3.
Read a review of Daily Sonnets by Charles Alexander here.
Read a review of The Agency of Wind here.
Writing by Laynie in Chain.
6 poems in the online magazine Titanic Opera can be found here.