Different Not Less

by Stephanie Brown, Kumica Truong (Illustrator)

Phoebe is a happy wobbly cat! Come meet Phoebe and her wobbly world - and learn how being different does not make one less in any way!

Kindle Edition

Published December 21, 2025

About the author

Stephanie Brown holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MLS from the University of California, Berkeley. For the past twenty years she has pursued dual careers as writer and librarian. She is the author of Allegory of the Supermarket, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1998, and Domestic Interior, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies and has been selected for six editions of the Best American Poetry annual anthology. In 2001 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 she was awarded the Margaret Bridgman Fellowship from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. She is a founding member of the Casa Romantica Reading Series which brought nationally known poets and fiction writers to San Clemente from 2004-2010. She has taught creative writing at UC Irvine and at the University of Redlands. She is an Administrative Manager for OC Public Libraries in Southern California, overseeing twelve of its thirty-three branches.