Andrea Brady

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Andrea Brady
Born12 August 1974
Philadelphia
OccupationPoet, lecturer
NationalityAmerican
Education Columbia University
University of Cambridge
GenrePoetry

Andrea Brady (born 1974 [1] in Philadelphia) is an American poet and lecturer at Queen Mary. She studied at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge [2] Her academic work focuses on contemporary poetry and the early modern period. [3] She is the curator of the Archive of the Now [4] and the co-editor (with Keston Sutherland) of Barque Press. [3]

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References

  1. Ian Hamilton and Jeremy Noel-Tod (eds). The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English, 2nd edition (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 66. ISBN   978-0-19-964025-6
  2. Dr Andrea Brady, Queen Mary University of London
  3. 1 2 Andrea Brady, Queen Mary University of London
  4. Archive of the Now

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