Brandon Jordan Brown is a 2014 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, winner of the 2016 Orison Anthology Poetry Prize, a scholarship recipient from The Sun, and a former PEN in the Community poetry instructor. His writing has appeared in West Branch; RHINO Poetry; Sycamore Review; The Journal; Forklift, Ohio and elsewhere. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Brandon now lives in Portland, Oregon. Find him on Twitter @brownbrandonj and at brandonjordanbrown.com.