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Erik Brown

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PhD Student
Graduate Teaching Assistant

Erik B. Brown (he/they) is a poet, writing instructor, and PhD student at the University of Georgia. Erik’s current research and writing includes (but not exhaustively) documentary poetry, queer theory, and surrealism.

Erik’s current creative project is a poetry manuscript that documents the homelessness epidemic in Coastal California through Google Maps Street View and explores the troubles of surveillance, representation, and desire. Erik’s poetry was chosen as a semi-finalist for the 2022 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.

In addition to their academic and creative endeavors, Erik served as the Digital Editor for Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts and has nearly a decade of experience working in nonprofit fundraising and marketing.

Education:

MFA, University of Houston
BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Interests:

Poetry & Poetics, Documentary Poetry, Performance Studies, Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Affect Theory.

Events featuring Abhijit Sarmah, Ellen Boyette, Erik Brown, O-Jeremiah (Oluwatoyosi) Agbaakin, Maxime Berclaz
Graduate Reading Room, Third Floor, Main Library

The Sentimental Touring Club is an annual reading series by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program. We are truly a sentimental bunch but be warned we are not miserable not miserly with our gifts! On Friday, March 29th at 6pm in the Graduate Reading Room, some of us will make you cry; some will make you laugh, but we:…

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