Fleda Brown’s twelfth collection of poems, The End of the Clockwork Universe, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2025. Flying Through a Hole in the Storm (2021) won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize from Ohio University Press and was an Indie finalist. Doctor of the World won the Finishing Line chapbook contest and was published in March 2025. Earlier poems can be found in The Woods Are On Fire: New & Selected Poems (University of Nebraska Press). Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has won a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her recent memoir is Mortality, with Friends (Wayne State University Press, an MiPA Winner and Midwest Book Award winner in memoir). She was poet laureate of Delaware from 2001–07. She lives in Traverse City, Michigan, with her husband, Jerry Beasley, not far from their lake cottage.