fledabrown

Fleda’s latest collection of essays, with Vermont Poet Laureate Sydney Lea, Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives, has just been released on Kindle from Autumn House Books, Pittsburgh, PA. Her eighth collection of poems, No Need of Sympathy, coming out from BOA Editions, LTD, in 2013. Her memoir, Driving With Dvorak was published in 2010 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award. Her work has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. She is professor emerita at the University of Delaware, and past poet laureate of Delaware. She now lives in Traverse City, Michigan, and is on the faculty of the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma, Washington.