Lee Ann Brown is a poet and the founding editor and publisher of Tender Buttons Press now celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Her own books include OTHER ARCHER (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2015), IN THE LAURELS, CAUGHT (Fence Books, 2013), CROWNS OF CHARLOTTE (Carolina Wren Press, 2013) and as editor of CONFLUENCE, an anthology of Black Mountain College tributes, as part of the double volume FAR FROM THE CENTERS OF AMBITION (Lorimer Press, 2013) which includes over 50 multigenerational contributions from poets and artists such as Kevin Killian, Robert Creeley, Anne Waldman, Brenda Hillman, Michael Rumaker, John Yau, Leah Souffrant, Lisa Jarnot, Basil & Martha King, Thomas Rain Crowe and many others. She is also the author of POLYVERSE (Sun & Moon) and THE SLEEP THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING (Wesleyan University Press), and many collaborative and performative poetry projects. Lee Ann Brown teaches at St. John's University in NYC.