L.M. Browning

Poet

NORTHAMPTON, MA
Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

L.M. Browning (they/them) is a bestselling poet whose hybrid of introspective travel writing and visual art focuses on the alchemizing of trauma through active awe-seeking and a re-wilding of one’s life and self.

Over the last fifteen years, Browning’s twenty-something intention to help “ensure the mainstream isn’t the only stream,” has taken shape in the form of the enduring indie platforms: Homebound Publications, Wayfarer Books,The Wayfarer Magazine Navigator Graphics. Their own published works have received five Pushcart Prize nominations, two Foreword Review Book Awards, the Nautilus Gold Medal for Poetry (2014), and the Nautilus Silver Medal for Poetry (2022).

Browning sits on the State of Connecticut’s/NAMI’s Lived Experience Committee and received national certification as a Survivor of Suicide Attempt (SOSA), Group Peer Facilitator through the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Foundation in Los Angeles. They are a graduate of the University of London and Harvard University. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Wildness: Voices of the Sacred Landscape (Homebound Publications, 2016)
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2010 Little Red Tree Publishing Anthology (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2010)
Books:
To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity (Homebound Publications, 2018)
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The Castoff Children (Homebound Publications, 2016)
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Seasons of Contemplation (Homebound Publications, 2015)
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In the Hands of the Immortal Weaver (Homebound Publications, 2015)
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Vagabonds and Sundries (Homebound Publications, 2013)
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Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity (Homebound Publications, 2012)
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Oak Wise - A Book of Poetry Exploring an Ecological Faith (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2010)
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Ruminations at Twilight - A Book of Poetry Exploring the Sacred (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2010)
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The Barren Plain (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2010)
Prizes won: 
  • 2011 Pushcart Prize Nomination (Poetry)
  •  2012 Pushcart Prize Nomination (Fiction)
  • 2013 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal (Poetry)
  • 2013 Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards (Best Non-fiction Regional Title)
  • 2011 Fellow with the League of Conservationist Writers
  • 2016 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers' Association
  • 2016 Finalist in Foreword Review's Indie Book Awards (Poetry)
  • 2018 Reelected to the Board of Directors of the Independent Book Publishers' Association
  • 2018 TEDx Talk "Writing on Life," Yale Univiersity TEDx "Uncharted" Conference
  • 2018 Pushcart Prize Nomination (Non-fiction)
  • 2019 Winner, Foreword Review's Indie Book Awards (Nonfiction)
  • 2022 Winner, Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal (Poetry)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Barry Lopez, Joanna Macy, Gary Snyder, David Abram, Mary Oliver, Rainer Maria Rilke, Annie Dillard, Cheryl Strayed, Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Terry Tempest Williams, Jim Harrison, John O’Donohue, Joan Didion, and Wendell Berry.

More Information

Gives readings: 
No
Travels for readings: 
No
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Illness/Wellness, LGBTQ, Naturalists/Environmentalists
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Raised in: 
CT
Connecticut
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Last update: Nov 17, 2023