author of Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women
2025 Eudora Welty Prize
drea brown is a queer Black feminist poet-scholar who serves as Associate Professor of English at Texas State University. Their essays and poems have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals such as The Smithsonian Magazine, Bellingham Review, Southern Indiana Review, and About Place, as well as in the anthology Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin. They are the author of dear girl: a reckoning, winner of the Gold Line Press 2014 chapbook prize, and co-editor of Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature, and their monograph, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women, has been awarded the 2025 Eudora Welty Prize.
