Browning, Sarah

Sarah Browning is Co-Director of Split This Rock Poetry Project and DC Poets Against the War. She is the author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007) and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2004). The recipient of an artist fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, she has also received a Creative Communities Initiative grant and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. Browning has worked as a community organizer in Boston public housing and as a political organizer for reproductive rights, gay rights, and electoral reform, and against poverty, South African apartheid, and U.S. militarism. She was founding director of Amherst Writers & Artists Institute, acreative writing workshops for low-income women and youth, and Assistant Director of The Fund for Women Artists, an organization supporting socially-engaged art by women. She has written essays and interviewed poets and artists for a variety of publications. From http://www.splitthisrock.org/who.html

History concentrator and feminist activist, Sarah Browning (A.B. 1985 Harvard University) was a member of the Radcliffe Union of Students' Women's Studies Committee, and a founder of the Committee on Women in the History Department.