Ray Brown lives in Frenchtown, NJ, 60 miles west of New York City and 50 miles north of Philadelphia, along the Delaware River.

He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey.

His poetry has appeared in a number of literary print and on-line journals, was featured in The Star-Ledger of Newark and received a NJ Poetry Society 2009 Recognition Award. A reader at a number of venues in the New Jersey, New York, and Philadelphia areas, his poetry appeared on-line in “What’s Your Exit? A Literary Detour Through New Jersey”.