# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jericho-brown
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:53.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jericho-brown"
name: "Jericho Brown"
slug: "jericho-brown"
description: "Jericho Brown is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as the University of Houston, the University of San Diego, and Emory University. His poems have been published in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, Oxford American, and The New Yorker, among others. He released his first book of prose and poetry, Please, in 2008. His second book, The New Testament, was released in 2014. His 2019 collection of poems, The Tradition, garnered widespread critical acclaim."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jericho_brown_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.jerichobrown.com/"
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    title: "Jericho Brown"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Brown"
    title: "Jericho Brown"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump