Translating the Lilies Back into Lists

About Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne is a poet prose writer teacher and editor. She is author of fourteen collections of poems and four books of fiction. Recent publications include: a book of poems In Garments Worn by Lindens a novel Periodic Companions and a book of short fiction The Book of Moments. 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) The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street UK) and Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (W.W. Norton). Her poetry has been translated into French Spanish Chinese and Catalan. She co-edited the anthology Ill Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press 2013) and edited the anthology A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on The Poets Novel (Nightboat 2020). Honors and awards include a Pew Fellowship the National Poetry Series Award for her collection The Scented Fox and the Contemporary Poetry Series Award for her collection Drawing of a Swan Before Memory. She teaches at University of Pennsylvania and at Swarthmore College.