Exit Lines (2009), Another Way (2012), They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012), A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014), Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014)
Kevin Brown (born July 9, 1970) is an American poet, author and teacher. He has published three full collections of poems--Liturgical Calendar: Poems;[1]A Lexicon of Lost Words;[2] and Exit Lines,[3] as well as a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again.[4] He has also published essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education,[5][6][7]Academe,[8][9]InsideHigherEd,[10][11][12][13]The Teaching Professor, and Eclectica Magazine.[14][15][16][17] He has published a work of scholarship--They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels[18]—as well as critical articles on Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Ralph Ellison, Tony Earley, and what English majors do after graduation.[19][20] He regularly writes reviews for NewPages.com,[21]The Comics Journal,[22]solrad,[23]Intima,[24] and Soapberry Review.[25] He has also written about running for Like the Wind.[26]
His first jobs were in private high schools, as Brown began teaching English in 1997 at the Culver Academies, where he also worked as an assistant coach for the girls basketball team. After attending the University of Alabama, he was hired at Stratford Academy, where he taught for one year before serving as librarian for one year. In 2001, he was hired at Lee University as an assistant professor of English. He worked for Lee for two years, then moved to Tacoma, Washington to take a position as Upper School Librarian. He worked there one year before returning to Lee, where he taught until 2021. He was a professor of English there, teaching both literature and creative writing courses.[20] He was the first of only two professors to receive all three major faculty awards (teaching, advising, and scholarship).[31] He currently teaches at Ensworth School,[32] where he has taught or is teaching Advanced Placement Literature and Composition; 10th Grade English; Prose Writing; Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion; AP English Languages and Composition; AP English Literature and Composition; Greek Drama; and The Literature of Immigration. He also advised the literary magazine.
Bibliography
Full-length poetry collections
Exit Lines: Poems (2009, Plain View Press)
A Lexicon of Lost Words (2014, Snake Nation Press)
Liturgical Calendar: Poems (2014, Wipf and Stock Publishers)
Jack Imagines a Different Map (forthcoming 2026, Finishing Line Press)
Chapbooks
Abecedarium (2011, Finishing Line Press)
Holy Days (2012, Split Oak Press)
Memoir
Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding Faith Again (2012, Wipf and Stock Publishers)
Literary criticism
They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (2012, Kennesaw State University Press)
Awards and honors
Lee University Excellence in Teaching award, 2011-12[33]
Lee University Excellence in Scholarship Recipient, 2009-10[34]
Lee University Excellence in Advising award, 2010-11[35]
Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Regional Sponsor Award, Southern Region, 2010-11[36]
First Place in Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry, Snake Nation Press, 2012; A Lexicon of Lost Words[37]
Honorable Mention and Finalist in Quercus Review Spring Poetry Book Award Contest, 2014; Jack Imagines a Different Map[38]
First Place in Split Oak Press Chapbook Competition, 2011; Holy Days
Finalist for Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry (The Broome Review and Split Oak Press), 2011; Holy Days[39]
Semi-Finalist in Elixir Antivenom Poetry Award, 2011; A Lexicon of Lost Words
Finalist in Elixir Press Eleventh Annual Poetry Awards, 2010; A Lexicon of Lost Words
Finalist in Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2010; Holy Days
Finalist in Copperdome Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2010; Holy Days
Finalist in Plan B Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 2010; Holy Days
Honorable Mention and Two Finalists for Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize, The Heartland Review, 2010
Two Honorable Mentions for Ruth Redel Poetry Contest, The Heartland Review, 2010
Second Runner-Up in Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2009; Abecedarium
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