Ariana Brown

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

Ariana Brown is an American spoken word poet from Texas. In 2014, she was part of a winning team at the national collegiate poetry slam. Ariana Brown has won the “Best Poet” award twice at the same event. She is also a two-time recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. Ariana Brown has a Bachelors of Arts degree in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently earning a Master of Fine Arts in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh and working on a poetry manuscript about her life, the formation of a racial identity, cultural politics, and authenticity among other themes. Brown is also working on a poetry manuscript about the conquest of the Aztecs through the lens of Black politics.

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