Betsy Brown

Betsy Brown (born 1963) is an American poet.

She is from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984.

She graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Her work has been published in American Poetry Review, Seneca Review.

• 2001 National Poetry Series, for Year of Morphine

• "Dignity in the Home", poets.org
• Year of morphines: poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8071-2782-7. 

Anthologies

• Joyce Sutphen,Connie Wanek, Thom Tammaro, eds. (2006). To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present. New Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-898232-32-5.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Criticism

Minneapolis poet Betsy Brown's book, Year of Morphines, preserves in verse her memory of two women who didn't survive breast cancer: her mother and sister. Cancer looms large in her family. Another sister has also been diagnosed with late stage breast cancer. Her father died of cancer, too. Betsy Brown completed the "Year of Morphines" after eight years of writer's block. She resumed writing following the deaths of her mother and sister.