Greg Brownderville

Arkansas poet Greg Alan Brownderville is a full professor in the Department of English at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, and is editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review. His first book was Deep Down in the Delta: Folktales and Poems (2005). A revised and illustrated edition was published in 2012. The material for this book was gathered around the county where he grew up and includes folktales, descriptions of local traditions, and oral histories presented in both poetry and prose. Brownderville has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the Porter Prize (2007), the Jane Geske Award from Prairie Schooner (2010), the Voice Only Poetry Prize from the Missouri Review (2011), and a poetry award from New Millennium Writings (2011); in addition, he received the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (2012), made the Bestseller List of the Poetry Foundation (2012), and saw his work listed among the “Top Picks” of the Library Journal (2012). Brownderville published a second book of poetry, Gust, in 2011, and his third book, A Horse with Holes in It, was published in 2016. He is also a songwriter and the lead singer of the band Beekeeper Spaceman, whose self-titled debut album was released in the spring of 2023. He collaborated with Jacob Cooper on the piece Ripple in the Sky, which premiered with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2016 and was released by New Amsterdam Records in 2020. In 2021, he created a so-called go-show called Fire Bones, an online narrative series including short films, podcasts, songs, poems, visual art, and more. In 2026, he was named writer-in-residence for the Hemingway-Pfeifer Museum and Education Center.