This spring, UWP Senior Lecturer Nate Brown was named one of the Gilman School’s A.J. Downs Visiting Writers. The Gilman School is a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade independent school founded in 1897. Located in Baltimore City, the Gilman School was the first country day school in the United States and is home to both the Reginald S. Tickner Writing Fellowship and the A.J. Downs Visiting Writers at Work series. 

Named in honor of longtime English department faculty member A.J. Downs, who taught at Gilman from 1950 – 1989, the series has brough contemporary authors including Natalie Diaz, Claire Vaye Watkins, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Jim Shepard, Alexandra Kleeman, and JHU’s own Mary Jo Salter, Sam Cheney, Danielle Evans, and Jalen Eutsey to campus for a reading, lecture, and meetings with faculty and students.