A native of Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas, he teaches Creative Writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in the Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Measure, and several other journals and magazines. He was chosen for the 2007 Porter Prize by past winners, including Lewis Nordan, Donald Harington, and Leon Stokesbury, and is the youngest person ever to receive the award, given annually to a writer with an Arkansas connection. He was nominated on the strength of his book Deep Down in the Delta, a collection of his original poems interspersed with folktales he gathered in Arkansas. In 2008 Brownderville completed an MFA at the University of Mississippi. Copies of his book can be purchased at his website, www.gregbrownderville.com.