Deborah Edler Brown

Deborah Edler Brown is an award-winning poet and journalist, performer and storyteller, author and teacher. Her poetry has appeared in various anthologies and journals. She was a long-time reporter for Time magazine and has written articles for numerous publications, including Psychiatric Times, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, North Shore magazine, and the Detroit Free Press. She is the co-author of Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family (Guilford Press, 1995). Deborah was also the 1997 Head-to-Head Haiku Champion and a member of the 1998 Los Angeles National Slam Team. She holds a degree in Creative Writing from Brown University and was the 2005 recipient of the Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Prize.