<![CDATA[MAHOGANY L. BROWNE - Bio]]>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:35:46 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[About Mahogany L. Browne]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:50:20 GMThttp://mobrowne.com/bio/about-mahogany-l-browneMahogany L. Browne, a Kennedy Center's Next 50 fellow, is a writer, playwright, organizer, & educator. Browne received fellowships from All Arts, Arts for Justice, Air Serenbe, Baldwin for the Arts, Cave Canem, Hawthornden, Poets House, Mellon Research, Rauschenberg, Wesleyan University, & UCross. Browne’s books include Vinyl Moon, Chlorine Sky (optioned for a play by Steppenwolf Theater), Black Girl Magic, and banned books Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice and Woke Baby. Founder of the diverse lit initiative Woke Baby Book Fair, Browne currently tours Chrome Valley (highlighted in Publishers Weekly and The New York Times) and is the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize winner.​

Mahogany L. Browne holds an honorary Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by Marymount Manhattan College in 2024, is the inaugural poet-in-residence at Lincoln Center, and lives work on her first adult fiction and fourth YA novel-in-verse in Brooklyn, NY.
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