Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and received her MFA in Poetry from The University of Oregon. A poet, playwright, and essayist, her work has appeared in various literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, Barn Owl Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, The Cortland Review, Poetry Quarterly, Natural Bridge, Sou’wester, and The Southern Quarterly, as well as the anthology From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Her book-length poem, Cradle Song, was published by C&R Press in January 2009. She is also the co-editor, with Oliver de la Paz, of A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, which is forthcoming in 2012. An assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, she lives with her husband, poet Adrian Matejka, and their daughter.