Stephanie Brown holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MLS from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past twenty years she has pursued dual careers as writer and librarian. She is the author of Allegory of the Supermarket, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1998, and Domestic Interior, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies and has been selected for four editions of the Best American Poetry annual anthology. In 2001 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 she was awarded the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She is a founding member of the Casa Romantica Reading Series which brought nationally known poets and fiction writers to San Clemente from 2004-2010. She has taught creative writing at UC Irvine and at the University of Redlands. She is Regional Branch Manager at the Irvine Heritage Park Branch of OC Public Libraries.