Fleda Brown
Fleda Brown was born in Columbia, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She earned her Ph.D. in English (specialty in American Literature) from the University of Arkansas, and in 1978 she joined the faculty of the University of Delaware English Department, where she founded the Poets in the Schools Program, which she directed for more than 12 years. Her books, essays, and individual poems have won many awards. Her eighth collection of poems, No Need of Sympathy, was published in 2013 by BOA Editions, LTD. Her collection of memoir-essays, Driving With Dvorak, was released in 2010 from the University of Nebraska Press. She has co-edited two books, most recently On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers.