Recipients of the Roscoe Lee Browne
Poet-in-Residence Award

2008

Jibade Khalil Huffman was born in Detroit and raised in Florida. His poetry, fiction and photography have appeared in Boston Review Court Green, NOON, Aufgabe and Encyclopedia, among others. Educated at Bard College and Browne University, his awards include the Groiller Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Millay Colony and the Ucross Foundation. His first book of poetry "19 Names For Our Band" is published by Fence Books.

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2009

Bruce Sneider is the author of "The Year We Studied Women," winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in poetry form the University of Wisconsin Press. Originally from Indiana, he lived for several years in Austin, Texas, where he was a James A. Michener Fellow in poetry and playwriting at the University of Texas Michener Center for Writers. His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Southern Review PN Review, Ploughshares Review and Prairie Schooner. A former Wallace Stegner fellow and Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University, he is currently the writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT.

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2010

The announcement of the 2010 Roscoe Lee Browne Poet-In-Residence Award recipient will be made this November pending juried selection.