F. Douglas Brown
F. Douglas Brown
is the author of two poetry collections,
ICON, and
Zero to Three, winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize selected by US Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith. He also co-authored with poet
Geffrey Davis,
Begotten (URB Books, 2016),
a chapbook of poetry as part of the Floodgate Poetry Series. Brown, an educator for over 20 years, currently teaches English and African American Poetry at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, an all-boys Jesuit school. He is both a
Cave Canem and
Kundiman fellow, and was selected by
Poets & Writers as one of their ten notable
Debut Poets of 2014. His poems have appeared in the
Academy of American Poets,
The PBS News Hour,
The Virginia Quarterly (VQR), Bat City Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review (CQR), The Southern Humanities Review, The Sugar House Review,
Cura Magazine, and
Muzzle Magazine. He is co-founder and curator of
un::fade::able - The Requiem for Sandra Bland, a quarterly reading series examining restorative justice through poetry as a means to address racism. When he is not teaching, writing or with his children (Isaiah, Olivia, and Simone), he is busy DJing in the greater Los Angeles area.