• Jennifer Swanton BrownNeighbor

  • Cupertino, CA

Jennifer Swanton Brown published her first poem in the Palo Alto Times when she was in the fifth grade.

She has been a poet/teacher with California Poets in the Schools since 2001 and joined its Board of Directors in March 2013. Her poems have been published in multiple local journals, including Caesura and The DQM Review.

She is a two-time recipient of a Fine Arts Commission grant from the City of Cupertino, where she recently served as a judge in its first city-wide poetry contest.

She has degrees in Linguistics and Nursing, and completed her Master of Liberal Arts at Stanford University in 2012.

Ms. Brown also manages regulatory education for clinical researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine.

On October 1, 2013, Ms. Brown became Cupertino's second Poet Laureate.

Contact her at twirlyword@gmail.com or PoetLaureate@cupertino.org.

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