Col. Julie Phillips Brown is an interdisciplinary poet, visual artist, literary critic, and editor. She is the author of The Adjacent Possible (Green Writers Press, 2021), winner of the Hopper Poetry Prize, and a recipient of the Freund Prize from Cornell University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of 19th-21st century poetry and poetics with visual art, the history of the book and book arts, digital technology, and race, gender, and sexuality. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ariadne, Borderlands, Columbia Poetry Review, Contemporary Women’s Writing, Crab Orchard Review, Denver Quarterly, interim, Jacket2, Nashville Review, The Rumpus, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vassar Review, and elsewhere. A native of Philadelphia, Lt. Col. Brown loves living in Lexington and working with cadets to support their writing, visual art, and research projects.

Professor English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies