Jenny Browne is the author of “I Am Trying to Love the Whole World” (BOA Editions, 2026). Her previous poetry collections “Dear Stranger,” “The Second Reason” and “At Once” are published by the University of Tampa Press. Her writing has appeared widely in literary journals including The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, Tin House and Threepenny Review.

Browne was the 2016–2018 City of San Antonio Poet Laureate and the 2017 State of Texas Poet Laureate. A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas in Austin, she has received grants from the San Antonio Artist Foundation, the Texas Writers League and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2020, she was the Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University in Belfast, and returned in 2024 as Fulbright in Irish Literature.