Tess Brown-Lavoie is author of Lite Year (2019), winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize. Other writing has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Berkeley Poetry Review, Fence Magazine, and Poetry Project's New Year's Marathon. Tess co-founded Sidewalk Ends Farm in Providence, RI in 2011, and served as President of the National Young Farmers Coalition. Tess was the 2020-2022 Anne Waldman Fellow at Naropa University, and currently teaches writing to architecture students at the Pratt Institute in New York.
