Brandon Brown is the author of several books including, most recently, Work (Atelos) and The Four Seasons (Wonder). In 2024, Free Poetry published his translation of the extant works of the troubadour Raimbaut d'Aurenga, Joy Is My Hotel. Brown's writing on art and culture has appeared in Art in America, Frieze, The Believer, Fanzine among other venues. He has been the recipient of the Beauchamp Prize for Critical Art Writing and a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in poetry. He is a co-editor at Krupskaya Books and occasionally publishes the zine Panda's Friend. He lives in Richmond, CA.