Deborah Edler
Brown

photo by james barros
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Deborah Edler Brown is a poet, performer, journalist, teacher and author. She was the 2005 winner of Kalliope’s Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry, the 1997 National Head-to-Head Haiku Champion, and a member of the 1998 Los Angeles National Slam Team. As a journalist, Brown was a stringer for Time magazine, and she is co-author of Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide to Raising a Second Family [Guilford Press, 1995]. She was born in Brazil, raised in Pittsburgh, and teaches creative writing in Los Angeles and online. She is in love with the magical properties of words.
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