F. Douglas Brown is the author of two poetry collections, ICON (Writ Large Press, 2018) and Zero to Three (University of Georgia, 2014), and a winner of the 2013 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. He also co-authored with poet Geffrey Davis, Begotten (URB Books, 2016), a chapbook of poetry as part of the Floodgate Poetry Series. Brown, an educator for over 30 years, currently teaches at the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University and Loyola High School of Los Angeles, where he serves as the Director of the Office of Equity and Inclusion.
He is both a Cave Canem and Kundiman fellow and was selected by Poets & Writers as one of their ten notable Debut Poets of 2014. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as the Academy of American Poets, The PBS News Hour, The Langston Hughes Review, The Virginia Quarterly, and Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (University of Pittsburgh, 2021).
Brown proudly sits on the Cave Canem Board of Directors and serves as an advisory circle member for the Lorca Latinx Poetry Prize.
When he is not teaching, writing, or with his children (Isaiah, Olivia, and Simone), he DJs in the greater Los Angeles area with the Halo-Halo Boyz.
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