
Cory Brown’s latest book of poems, A Long Slow Climb, is from Cayuga Lake Books, as are his previous two, Elisions and What May be Lost. He published four previous books of poems, his first from Swallow’s Tale Press, published upon winning that press’s national manuscript contest. He grew up raising cattle in western Oklahoma, studied English and Philosophy at Oklahoma State University, and took an M.F.A. from Cornell University. He is now a professor in the Writing Department at Ithaca College. His poems have appeared in Bomb, december, Northwest Review, Sentence, Nimrod International, The Fiddlehead, and Postmodern Culture, among others. His essays have appeared in Journal of Narrative Politics, South Loop Review, and Writing on the Edge. Much of his work is available on his website: http://faculty.ithaca.edu/cbrown/


