Harriet Brown received a master's in fine arts in creative writing from Brooklyn College, where she studied with John Ashbery, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, C.K. Williams, and other poets. Her chapbook, The Promised Land, will be published by Parallel Press in March 2004. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Atlanta Review, the Sandhills Review, and other literary venues. Her poems have won many awards, including Grand Prize in The Atlanta Review's International Poetry Competition, first prize in the Ronald H. Bayes Poetry Prize, first prize in the Judith's Room Emerging Talent Contest, first prize in the Stone Ridge Poetry Society's competition, a New York State CAPS grant and numerous fellowships to Yaddo. Brown has also been a finalist in the Discovery/The Nation poetry contest. Her nonfiction appears in the New York Times, Glamour, Ms., Health, the Chicago Tribune, American Girl, and other publications. Her first nonfiction book, The Good-Bye Window: A Year in the Life of a Day-Care Center, was published in 1998 by the University of Wisconsin Press. Brown lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and two daughters.