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L.M. Browning [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Abiquiu, NM
New Mexico US
Email: 
wolfe@wayfarerbooks.org
Bio: 

L.M. Browning (they/them) is a bestselling poet whose hybrid of introspective travel writing and visual art focuses on the alchemizing of trauma through active awe-seeking and a re-wilding of one’s life and self.

Over the last fifteen years, Browning’s twenty-something intention to help “ensure the mainstream isn’t the only stream,” has taken shape in the form of the enduring indie platforms: Homebound Publications, Wayfarer Books,The Wayfarer Magazine & Navigator Graphics. Their own published works have received five Pushcart Prize nominations, two Foreword Review Book Awards, the Nautilus Gold Medal for Poetry (2014), and the Nautilus Silver Medal for Poetry (2022).

Browning sits on the State of Connecticut’s/NAMI’s Lived Experience Committee and received national certification as a Survivor of Suicide Attempt (SOSA), Group Peer Facilitator through the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Foundation in Los Angeles. They are a graduate of the University of London and Harvard University. 

Gives readings: 
No
Travels for readings: 
No
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Barry Lopez, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, David Abram, Mary Oliver, Rainer Maria Rilke, Annie Dillard, Cheryl Strayed, Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Terry Tempest Williams, Jim Harrison, John O’Donohue, Joan Didion, and Wendell Berry.
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Website: 
http://wayfarerbooks.org [2]
Prizes won: 
  • 2011 Pushcart Prize Nomination (Poetry)
  •  2012 Pushcart Prize Nomination (Fiction)
  • 2013 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal (Poetry)
  • 2013 Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Best Non-fiction Regional Title)
  • 2011 Fellow with the League of Conservationist Writers
  • 2016 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers' Association
  • 2016 Finalist in Foreword Review's Indie Book Awards (Poetry)
  • 2018 Reelected to the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers' Association
  • 2018 TEDx Talk "Writing on Life," Yale Univiersity TEDx "Uncharted" Conference
  • 2018 Pushcart Prize Nomination (Non-fiction)
  • 2019 Winner, Foreword Review's Indie Book Awards (Nonfiction)
  • 2022 Winner, Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal (Poetry)

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/lm_browning [2] http://wayfarerbooks.org