Emir Brown-Murillo

Emir Brown-Murillo is a Honduran-American Frost Place Scholar from Harlem River Houses in New York City, the city's first federally funded, built, and owned public housing development, completed in 1937.

Brown is the author of three poetry books. They received Emory University's Artistine Mann Award in Poetry in 2017 and Excellence in LGBTQ+ Writing Award in 2020. Their work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies, with publications collected on their Selected Works page.

Brown earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Emory University in 2021. In 2020, they received the Frost Place Latinx Poetry Scholarship, which included a writing retreat, and were selected for an artist residency at the Anderson Center. They were also named a finalist for the Brooklyn Poets Winter 2026 Fellowship and the Charles S. Longcope Jr. Writers & Artist Grant in 2026.

At Emory, Brown co-founded and led Free Thought Poetry and received the 2020 J. Michael Aycock Leadership Award. They previously headed the poetry committee for INK, the literary magazine at Democracy Prep Charter High School, and currently serve as a poetry reader for Broad Ripple Review. They also developed Ouroboron couplets, a poetic form consisting of four to twelve couplets representing a self-consuming cycle.

Brown is the creator of Poetry Processor, a digital writing tool for poets.