Michael Dennis Browne teaches at the University of Minnesota, where he is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and former director of the program in creative writing. Two of his collections published by Carnegie Mellon have won the Minnesota Book award for poetry. Other publications include Give Her the River, a picture book with paintings by Wendell Minor (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004) and Panthers (Indulgence Press, 2007).