Letters Inscribed in Snow

Laynie Browne's recent publications include: a book of poems, Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022), a novel, PERIODIC COMPANIONS (Tinderbox Editions, 2018), and a book of short fiction, THE BOOK OF MOMENTS (Presses Universitaires de Rouen, 2018). Her work has appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, A Public Space, New American Writing, The Brooklyn Rail, and in anthologies including: The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2020), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street Editions, 2020), and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013). Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Catalan. She co-edited the anthology I'LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN (Les Figues Press, 2012) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poet's Novel (Nightboat Books, 2021). Honors and awards include a Pew Fellowship, the National Poetry Series Award for her collection The Scented Fox (Wave Books, 2007), and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory (University of Georgia Press, 2005). She teaches at University of Pennsylvania.