Savannah Brown
Savannah Brown (born 21 July 1996) is an American-British poet and author. Early life Brown was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She credits the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and her eleventh grade English teacher for cultivating her interest in poetry. She graduated from Wadsworth High School in 2014 then shortly after moved to London. Career Brown gained prominence after videos of her performing original poems, one exploring the topic of self-love and another about female sexuality, went viral. At age 19, Brown self-published a collection of poetry titled Graffiti (and other poems) which was a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. In 2020 she released a second poetry collection called Sweetdark. Writing about Sweetdark for i-D, Jenna Mahale notes the collection "explores how we live vulnerably, pleasurably, and chaotically at the end of the world". In Redbrick, Sam Wait states "Brown has succeeded in writing a collection that, though deeply personal, is universally relatable". Of her poetry, Brown has said "I’m interested in [...] acknowledging that so many small and human things are happening while out of frame there’s, like, a star collapsing". In Our Culture Magazine, Konstantinos Pappis describes Brown's work as having "a mix of wry self-awareness and