Danish-American poet

Cindy Lynn Brown (born 1973) is a Danish-American poet. In 2013, she received the Danish Agricultural cultural foundation poetry award.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Career
• 3 Awards
• 4 Bibliography
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Early life and education

Brown was born in Aarhus and is of Jewish descent. She grew up in Denmark, the US and UK and later on also lived and studied in France. She has a degree in literature and creative writing from University of Southern Denmark and Université de Nancy II.

Career

Brown has published six collections of poetry and one novel and she is translated into French, Italian, Bengali, Slovene, Chinese, Korean and Croatian. She has also contributed poems and short stories to various magazines, reviews and anthologies. Brown is the organizer of the International poetry festival Odense Lyrik which takes place every year in March. The festival has existed since 2007.

Awards

• Danish Agricultural cultural foundation poetry award, 2013

Bibliography

• A til B Z til Fisk, 2019 (poems)
• Dealbreaker, 2017 (poems)
• Ingen kan se os bagfra, 2016 (poems)
• The lungs are strangers inside, 2015 (poems)
• Din lille darling, 2014 (poems/short prose)
• Game, 2014 (poems)
• Mute, 2013 (novel)
• Rigtige børn vokser - ikke op i forbifarten, Spring Publications, 2011
• Ildebefindende, Spring publications, 2010
• Korrektur, Spring Publications, 2009

References

External links

• kamov residency description of poet
• Danish Authors Society
• the Feminist Wire