Jo Brown

Jo Brown (she/her/he/him) is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Maryland. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from American University and a B.A. in Justice and Peace Studies from Georgetown University. She comes from a family of women committed to teaching, cultural organizing, and the humanities: her sisters are cultural scholars, her mother is a librarian, and her grandmother is a poet and retired teacher. Her research revolves around: Black/white interracial relationships; interracial desire; American popular culture; and multiracial identity formation. She is especially fascinated by television, film, social media (particularly Twitter), and professional sports (particularly the NBA). Jo has had creative and academic work published in Utraque Unum, Black Youth Project, sin cesar magazine, Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security, and Voices of the East Coast.

You can keep up with her writing at tallawahthoughts.com. Jo is Jamaican-American and from the Atlanta, Georgia area.