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Andrea Carter Brown's latest poetry collection, September 12 (The Word Works 2021), is the recipient of the 2022 IPPY Silver Medal in Poetry. September 12 is available from Amazon, Small Press Distribution, Word Works Books, and your favorite bookstore.

“A more haunting memorial to 9/11 than this book will be hard to find," writes Martha Collins. "Reading September 12 is a wrenching but restorative experience you won't soon forget". In the words of New York State Poet Laureate Alicia Ostriker, "In Andrea Carter Brown's September 12, detail by detail, we watch the process of innocence captured by absolutely unpredicted trauma, and how the experience lives on and on, through shock and terror, through the kindness of strangers, through the heart of a beloved, through grief and elegy, through normality that will never again be normal." And Cynthia Hogue writes, "This brave book documents great loss, but also hard-won psychic resilience in poems of astonishing beauty and wisdom. September 12 is necessary poetry."

A former resident of downtown Manhattan who lived a block from the World Trade Center on 9/11, Brown's eyewitness account of the attack and its aftermath won the James Dickey Prize from Five Points, the River Styx International Poetry Prize, the Puddinghouse Press Chapbook Competition, The MacGuffin National Poet Hunt, and is cited in the Library of Congress Online Research Guide to the Poetry of 9/11. Featured on NPR, her poem “The Old Neighborhood” has been widely anthologized. Split This Rock chose her poem “After the Disaster: Fragments” as their Poem of the Week for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. 

Poet and editor Andrea Carter Brown is the author of three previous poetry collections: The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry Press, 2006) and two chapbooks, Brook & Rainbow (winner of the 2001 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review chapbook contest) and Domestic Karma, (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her current manuscript, American Fraktur, was chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2018 Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award from Marsh Hawk Press.

Her poetry has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Five Points, River Styx, Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and Miramar, among many others. Featured on Poetry Daily, her work has also won awards from The River Oak Review, Thin Air, and the Poetry Society of America. 

She has given workshops, spoken publicly, and blogged about “The Poetry of Bearing Witness,” “History into Verse,” “The Legacy of 9/11 in Poetry,” “Finding the Perfect Form: Breaking Old Forms and Inventing New Ones,” and “How to Know When a Poem is (Finally) Finished.” She has interviewed Marilyn Hacker and Mark Doty for Five Points and has written articles about the poets Mona Van Duyn and M. L. Rosenthal.

Brown has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale, and VCCA. Most recently, she has twice been a Fellow at le Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. She has given readings in England, France, and throughout the United States.

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, and educated at New York University, Université de Paris, and City College, she lived in New York City until 2004, where she worked as an accountant for artists and small creative businesses and was a founding editor of the poetry journal Barrow Street. She taught creative writing at Pomona College after moving to the West Coast and was Managing Editor of The Emily Dickinson Journal. For six years she served on the Fellows Council of VCCA, the last three as Chair, and edited the poetry anthology Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo with Margaret B. Ingraham. In 2017, she joined The Word Works and serves as Series Editor for The Washington Prize, their longest-running poetry book contest and imprint.

 An avid birder and backyard citrus farmer, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Thomas Drescher. For more information about the genesis of September 12 in the context of her 2004 move to the West Coast, see her blog at Five Points: “On Poetry and Growing Oranges, Tangerines, Lemons, and Limes.”