Lily Brown

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Lily Brown (born March 20, 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/989199.Lily_Brown |title=Lily Brown (Author of Rust or Go Missing) |publisher=Goodreads.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-17}}

Brown is author of the poetry collection Rust or Go Missing (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in journals such as American Letters and Commentary, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Tarpaulin Sky.{{cite web|url=http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/Brown.html |title=Poetry Center || Cleveland State University |publisher=Csuohio.edu |accessdate=2012-02-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111027032346/http://www.csuohio.edu/poetrycenter/AuthorBook/Brown.html |archivedate=2011-10-27 }} She currently teaches English at the Nueva Upper School in San Mateo, CA.{{cite web|url=http://www.nuevaschool.org |title=The Nueva School; San Mateo, CA |date= |access-date= July 13, 2017}}

Brown holds an A.B. in women's studies from Harvard College and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Saint Mary's College of California.{{cite web|url=http://poems.com/feature.php?date=14999 |title=Poetry Daily's Featured Poet: Lily Brown |publisher=Poems.com |date=2011-01-24 |accessdate=2012-02-17}}