L.M. Browning (they/them) is a bestselling poet whose hybrid of introspective travel writing and visual art focuses on the alchemizing of trauma through active awe-seeking and a re-wilding of one’s life and self.
Over the last fifteen years, Browning’s twenty-something intention to help “ensure the mainstream isn’t the only stream,” has taken shape in the form of the enduring indie platforms: Homebound Publications, Wayfarer Books,The Wayfarer Magazine & Navigator Graphics. Their own published works have received five Pushcart Prize nominations, two Foreword Review Book Awards, the Nautilus Gold Medal for Poetry (2014), and the Nautilus Silver Medal for Poetry (2022).
Browning sits on the State of Connecticut’s/NAMI’s Lived Experience Committee and received national certification as a Survivor of Suicide Attempt (SOSA), Group Peer Facilitator through the Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Foundation in Los Angeles. They are a graduate of the University of London and Harvard University.
FAR RIDER
Available in Full-color Paperback and eBook.
THE FINAL INTERVIEW WITH L.M. BROWNING
In this special edition of The Wayfarer, Editor-at-Large, Frank Inzan Owen (he/him) sits down in conversation with our Founder, L.M. Browning (they/them), to discuss the topics of gender identity, facing Intergenerational trauma, and seeking awe in the high desert.
In late autumn of 2022, Browning hit the road and disappeared into the backcountry of Northern New Mexico. It was here they began sitting with some larger changes they felt brewing—changes around their pronouns, their gender identity, and their creative pursuits moving forward. Far Rider is the product of that time spent in the wild.
Featuring original photography by Connor Wolfe.
Cimarron, NM > Berkshire Mnts. MAss
Where we leave off…
Following the release of their micro-memoir, To Lose the Madness, and the TEDx Talk at Yale University based on their life, Browning returns from a six-year poetic silence with, Drive through the Night.
The map of these poems traces the poet’s journey of overcoming and re-becoming while set against the iconic backdrop of the American Southwest.
In Drive Through the Night, we follow the trail of an orphan-turned-vagabond who left behind the white picket fence for the open range and open road.
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Recent Praise
“visually spectacular. a gorgeous ode to self-discovery and healing,”
—Publisher’s Weekly
“a quiet yet fierce rebirth of the wounded spirit.”
—James Crews, Poet and Editor of The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection & Joy
“Exquisitely delicate and lyrical…their magnum opus.”
—Caitlin Garvey, author of The Mourning Report
“breathtaking vulnerability.”
—Will Falk, author of How Dams Fall
“Browning uses poetry and photography to detail their evolution from a socialized prisoner of expectations to a reclaimed, authentic self.”
—Foreword Review
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The TEDX
Since the release of their micro-memoir, To Lose the Madness: Field Notes on Trauma, Loss and Radical Authenticity, and the subsequent TEDx Talk at Yale based on the book, Browning has worked tirelessly as a Mental Health Advocate and publicly shares their own struggle with c-ptsd as a means to help lift the stigma of mental illness through storytelling.
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