Mahogany L Browne

Mahogany L. Browne is a Brooklyn-based poet, writer, and performance artist born in Oakland, California. She holds an MFA in writing and activism from the Pratt Institute. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Chrome Valley, which won the 2024 Paterson Poetry Prize, and the young adult and children's books Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice and Black Girl Magic. Browne leads several literary organizations, serving as executive director of Bowery Poetry Club and artistic director of Urban Word NYC, and founded and publishes Penmanship Books. Her poetry collection Smudge was published by Button Poetry in 2016.