Brandon Brown is the author of several books, including, most recently, Work (Atelos, 2020) and The Four Seasons (Wonder, 2018). In 2024, Free Poetry published his translation of the extant works of the troubadour Raimbaut d’Aurenga, Joy Is My Hotel. In 2026, Roof will publish a new book, Top 40 (Another Volume)
Brown’s writing on art and culture has appeared in Art in America, Frieze, The Believer, Open Space and Fanzine, among other publications. He received the Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing in 2018 and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2015. He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books and occasionally publishes the zine Panda’s Friend. He lives in Richmond, California.
upcoming readings and events
March 12, 2026 @ Bather’s Library Poetics and Plant Medicine with Sofia Cordova and Darieck Scott
April 22, 2026 @ The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church with Laura Henriksen
Brandon Brown 