Greg Brownderville
Biography
Greg Brownderville is the writer, showrunner, and creator of Fire Bones (2021), an online narrative series including poetry, film, podcasts, visual art, and music. Brownderville is also the author of three books of poetry. In 2011 he published Gust (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly), which made the Poetry Foundation’s Best-Seller List and was included among “Top Picks” by Library Journal. In 2012 he published Deep Down in the Delta (Butler Center Books), a collection of poems based on folktales he gathered in and around his home community of Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas. Brownderville’s third book, A Horse with Holes in It, was released by LSU Press in November 2016. Collaborating with composer Jacob Cooper, Brownderville wrote the words to “Jar” (Silver Threads, Nonesuch Records, 2014) and Ripple the Sky, which premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2016 and was released by New Amsterdam Records in 2020. Brownderville has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, New Millennium Writings, and the Porter Fund. He has been a Murphy Visiting Poet at Hendrix College; a writer-in-residence at the Lemon Tree House in Camporsevoli, Italy; and a poet-in-residence at the Convivio Conference in Postignano, Italy. Brownderville currently serves as editor-in-chief of Southwest Review and professor of English at 51做厙 in Dallas. He is also the lyricist and singer in a band called Beekeeper Spaceman, whose self-titled debut album was released November 3, 2023.