Braden graduated from McNeese State University with an MFA, where he studied with the poet John Wood.[1]
His work is published in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner,[2] Virginia Quarterly Review,[3] Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Georgia Review.
He was poet-in-residence for the Poetry Center and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He teaches at Tacoma Community College.[4]
