Jenny Browne is the author of three collections of poems: Dear Stranger, The Second Reason, and At Once, all from the University of Tampa Press. Her poems and essays have appeared widely, including American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The New York Times, Tin House, and Threepenny Review. A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas in Austin, she has received grants from the San Antonio Artist Foundation, the Texas Writers League, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was the 2016-2018 City of San Antonio Poet Laureate and the 2017 State of Texas Poet Laureate.  In 2020, she was the Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University in Belfast, and returned in 2024 for another Fulbright in Creative Writing.  

Currently she splits her time between San Antonio, Texas and Belfast, Northern Ireland, working as a Professor of English at Trinity University and Queens University.