Stacia Brown

Stacia L. Brown is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College's creative writing MFA program. She is the founder of Beyond Baby Mamas (http://beyondbabymamas.com), a blog and online support community for single parents of color. She has been published at The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Salon, The New Republic, Fusion, Buzzfeed, Poets & Writers, and various other publications. Stacia has appeared on The Today Show, NPR, PBS NewsHour, News Nation with Tamron Hall, and HuffPost Live to discuss pop culture, race, and parenting.

Her short story, “Be Longing,” was selected for publication in It’s All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family, and Friends (Doubleday/Harlem Moon 2009), edited by Marita Golden. Her poem, “Combat,” appears in Reverie: Midwest African American Literature. Her essay on adjuncting as a single mother appears in the Demeter Press title, Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering and the Academy, edited by Sekile Nzinga-Johnson.

Stacia served as the 2013-14 Editorial Fellow for Community Engagement at Colorlines. In June 2015, she was part of the inaugural Thread at Yale class. She was a 2015 participant in Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices training program. She was a 2019 Tin House Scholar and a participant in the Cambridge Writers Workshop in Paris, also in 2019.

In addition to her work in print, Stacia is also an accomplished audio storyteller. In November 2015, Stacia became the creator and producer of Baltimore: The Rise of Charm City, a radio and podcast series that tells intergenerational stories of place and memory in Baltimore City. Baltimore: The Rise of Charm City is part of the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR)’s 2015 Finding America: Localore project and is produced in partnership with WEAA 88.9.

She is the creator of Hope Chest, a collection of audio essays written to her daughter and present in podcast form at SoundCloud and Apple Podcasts. Hope Chest has been featured on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts and the Third Coast International Audio Festival podcast, Re:Sound. It was named one of Audible Feast’s Best New Podcasts of 2017. She also created and produces a micro-podcast for middle-grade book reviews, which her daughter narrates and hosts. It’s called Story on Stories.

In 2018, Stacia landed a gig at WAMU, as a producer of the NPR-syndicated daily news program, 1A. In 2020, she relocated from Maryland to North Carolina, where she currently produces radio and podcasts (including the incomparable Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon) and edits writing projects for WUNC, North Carolina’s NPR station and serves as an advice columnist for Slate’s weekly parenting advice column, Care and Feeding.

Stacia has served as an adjunct instructor of composition and creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids Community College, Kuyper College, and Community College of Baltimore County. She was also the 2013-14 recipient of the Community Engagement Fellowship for Colorlines.com.

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