Jenny Browne

Jenny Browne is a professor of English and creative writing at Trinity University. Her most recent poetry collection is Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems. Her poems and essays have appeared most recently in The New York Times, Poetry, Nation, American Poetry Review, and Oxford American. She served concurrent terms as the 2016–18 Poet Laureate of San Antonio and the 2017 Texas Poet Laureate, and she was the 2019–20 Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2023. She lives in San Antonio. She is the editor of Texas, Being: A State of Poems.