Sommer Browning

Sommer Browning is a poet, writer, artist, and librarian. Her latest book is Good Actors (Birds, LLC; 2022). She’s the author of two other collections of poetry, Backup Singers and Either Way I’m Celebrating, as well as the artist book, The Circle Book (Cuneiform Press), the joke book, You’re On My Period (Counterpath), and others. From 2017-2023, she ran GEORGIA, an art space in her garage in Denver. In 2023, she adapted her book Good Actors into a one-woman show, performing it all over The United States, most recently at CPR-Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. Her poetry, art writing, and visual art have appeared in Hyperallergic, Lit Hub, Bomb, Artforum, Chicago Review, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She currently works as a reference librarian at Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia.