About Me

Derrick Brown has toured as a storyteller, comic and poet around the world. He has performed at Glastonbury, All Tomorrow's Parties, Berlin Intl. Lit Festival. He had a poetry book shop in Austin Texas, performed on The Tonight Show and is the founder and president of Write Bloody Publishing. He has published nine books of poetry. He runs the Your River Is Waiting workshop series as well as a writing workshop series for fellow veterans. He is also a comedian who combines poetry with his stand up. It sounds terrible, I know. He has performed in venues around the world with comedians Kristin Schaal, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Jon Glaser, and H. Jon Benjamin. He's previously toured or headlined with Eugene Mirman, Kurt Braunohler, Kyle Kinane and tons of other weirdos. He lives in LA.