The Last Call

At the end of 2023, the collected works of L.M. Browning were pulled out of print at my request (and with the blessing of the publishers). All titles, except The Castoff Children and Far Rider, will leave stores in the next few weeks. Excerpts from the works no longer in print, as well as notes from unpublished manuscripts, will be published through this Substack platform in the coming months.

Thank you all for the support you’ve shown my work over the last 15 years.

Deep Peace

L.M. Browning

From 2002 – 2022, Connor Wolfe (they/them) wrote fourteen titles with the pen name, L.M. Browning. Under this moniker, they received 6 Pushcart Prize Nominations, the Gold Nautilus Medal for Poetry (2010), multiple Foreword Review Book Awards, and finally, the Nautilus Silver Medal for poetry (2022).

Wolfe’s visionary approach to indie publishing afforded them the opportunity to serve two terms on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publisher’s Association, speak on the TEDx stage at Yale University, and study at Harvard University via grant programs.

Following the TEDx Talk (2018), Wolfe was invited to join several larger mental health conversations, where they became an advocate for normalizing mental illness. Ultimately Wolfe was asked to join the State of Connecticut/NAMI Lived Experience Committee (2021) and went on to become a certified SOSA (Survivor of Suicide Attempts) Peer Facilitator through the Didi Hirsch Foundation in Los Angeles. In early 2022, Wolfe shifted their advocacy work to Queer/Trans Rights in light of the active threat posed to these marginalized communities, of which Wolfe is a part.

At the close of 2022, Wolfe retired from the pen name L.M. Browning, choosing instead to pursue mixed media and photography as their new artistic expression. Connor now serves as Creative Director for Homebound Publications and Wayfarer Books (the publishing houses they founded in 2011). During the winter, they can usually be found in the high-desert of Northern New Mexico. During the warm months, they live/work in Western Mass on their private, hacienda/plazuela-style homestead between the queer culture of Pioneer Valley and the solitude of the Berkshire Mountains.

Connor Wolfe writes the “Letter from the Editor” for Wayfarer Magazine.

In 2023, Wolfe financed/founded the Radical Authenticity Prize for Trans & NonBinary Writers through Wayfarer Books.

Donate Directly to the Artist

(It’s like passing the hat at the end of the night.)

If you have enjoyed the work I’ve done under L.M. Browning and are inclined to show gratitude, I invite you to donate directly. Everything gathered by the “tip jar ” (Venmo) goes toward daily necessities. Whether it is a warm cup of coffee or a tank of gas, whatever you pass along is deeply appreciated.

At this point in the journey, we are all just running on compassion.

With Gratitude