Wayne Brown was born in Portuguese of Spain, Trinidad, to a Trinidadian father, Kenneth Vincent Brown, and a Barbadian mother. His mother died soon after giving birth to him, and for most of his childhood Wayne was brought up by relatives, while his father worked as a puisne judge.
University of Toronto.
Brown had been a Fulbright Scholar in the United States, Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds from 1974 to 1977 and a Fellow of Yaddo, MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Most recently, he was an instructor at Lesley University"s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Program.
