Fleda Brown is an award-winning poet and memoirist. Her work has appeared three times in The Best American Poetry and has earned a Pushcart Prize, the Felix Pollak Prize, the Philip Levine Prize, and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writer’s Award. She is the author of multiple poetry collections, including The End of the Clockwork Universe, and the memoir Mortality, with Friends, a Midwest Book Award winner. Brown served as Poet Laureate of Delaware from 2001 to 2007. Her writing is known for its clarity, emotional depth, and lyrical insight into the human experience.