Mahogany L. Browne is a writer, organizer, and educator. Executive Director of Bowery Poetry Club, Artistic Director of Urban Word NYC, and Poetry Coordinator at St. Francis College. Browne has received fellowships from Agnes Gund, AIR Serenbe, Cave Canem, Poets House, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. She is the author of Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice, Woke Baby, Black Girl Magic, Kissing Caskets, and #Dear Twitter. She is also the founder of the Woke Baby Book Fair—a nationwide diversity literature campaign—and, as an Arts for Justice grantee, is excited to release her first young adult novel, Chlorine Sky, in January 2021. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.