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noted, “She started out well and keeps getting better... Why she hasn’t been laden with honors and awards is an unfathomable mystery to me.” Gray
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Brosman received several teaching awards at Rice and at Tulane; she won the Tulane
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series. Her poems have been published by journals in the United States and in
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stood “with much of Mary Austin and certain pages of Willa Cather among the finest poetry” of the
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