Kurt Brown founded the Aspen Writers’ Conference, and Writers’ Conferences & Centers. He was the author of six chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry, including Time-Bound, from Tiger Bark Press. He was an editor for the online journal MEAD: The Magazine of Literature and Libations and edited ten anthologies of poetry, including (with Harold Schechter) Killer Verse: Poems about Murder and Mayhem. His memoir, Lost Sheep: A Portrait of Aspen in the 70s, was published by Conundrum Press in 2012. He taught poetry workshops at Sarah Lawrence College and Georgia Tech. He died in 2013.
