Brynn Downing

Writer and Editor

About

I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Four Way Review. I'm a published poet and essayist. I also work in communications for a national lab.I've been a teacher, a barista, an au pair, and a volunteer on an eco commune in Bosnia Herzegovina. I served as the 34th Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School. I earned my BA in Global Studies, focusing on Masculinity and Nationalism in Former Yugoslavia, from the College of William and Mary. I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. I was awarded the Thomas Lux Award, given to teachers and writers of poetry. I was also the Assistant Director of the 2014 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival and Director of the 2015 Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival.I do want to pet your dog and I don't want to share my fries (I want them all!).

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Nonfiction publications include:"Rabbitdom" in Prairie Schooner, Summer 2017 (print)"My Father, The Trickster" in Lunch Ticket Winter/Spring 2018Poetry publications include:
“Koo-Koo, the Bird Girl” — Glass: a Journal of Poetry, October 2017“Whale Fall” and “This Land” — Post Road (print), Fall 2018“Consumed” and “Bad Condition” — Burning House Press, February 2019

NJ born, TN residing000-000-0000
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