Derrick Weston Brown is the author of Wisdom Teeth (PM Press, 2011). He has taught creative writing at Hart Middle School and Emerson Preparatory School, and as a visiting artist for the PEN/Faulker Foundation’s Writers in Schools program, and been a writer-in-residence at Busboys & Poets and for the Howard County Poetry Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo). Brown works as a bookseller and book buyer for the Teaching for Change Bookstore at Busboys & Poets, and runs a popular monthly reading series there, called Nine on the Ninth. He is a native of Charlotte, NC, and resides in Mount Rainier, MD.
