Jenny Browne, poet

Jenny Browne is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she also directs The Humanities Collective. A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas, she has received the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and two Distinguished Fulbright Fellowships to Belfast, Northern Ireland from the US/UK Fulbright Foundation. She is the author of four collections of poems, most recently Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems and one anthology: Texas, Being: A State of Poems. Her work has appeared widely, most recently in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Oxford American, Poem a Day, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, The New York Times and The Slowdown. She served concurrent terms as the 2016-2018 City of San Antonio Poet Laureate, and the 2017 State of Texas Poet Laureate. In 2023, she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.