Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series: Brionne Janae

Location: Kirby Hall Salon

• This lecture is part of the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Lecture Series. For more information on this lecture or the lecture series, please visit the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series webpage.

Brionne Janae is a poet and teaching artist living in Brooklyn with their two dogs. They are the author of Because You Were Mine (2023) which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, Blessed are the Peacemakers (2021) which won the 2020 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, and After Jubilee (2017). Brionne is a 2023 NEA Creative Writing Fellow, a Hedgebrook Alum and a proud Cave Canem Fellow.