Career
Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Brown has spent most of her adult life in Canada, living first in Montreal and then in Ottawa. Brown is now teaching creative writing at both Concordia and Carleton Universities, and produces and co-hosts the FM arts programme Sparks World War II The author of several collections of poetry, Brown"s work has also appeared in over 100 magazines in Canada, the United States. and Australia, and in numerous anthologies. In 1986, a staged adaptation of her poetry series, On Falling Bodies, was presented in three "sold out" performances at the atelier of Ottawa"s National Arts Centre.