Carrie Brown author biography, plus links to books by Carrie Brown.

Carrie Brown

Carrie Brown is the author of five acclaimed novels - Rose's Garden, Lamb in Love, Confinement, The Hatbox Baby and The Rope Walk - as well as a collection of short stories, The House on Belle Isle. A sixth novel, The Last First Day, was be published by Pantheon Books in 2013.

She has won many awards for her work, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, The Great Lakes Book Award, and, twice, the Library of Virginia Award. Her short fiction has appeared in journals including One Story, Glimmer Train, The Georgia Review, and The Oxford American. Her work has been translated into several languages, and she has appeared at literary festivals, libraries, bookstores, and colleges and universities across the country.

A graduate of Brown University and the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where she held a prestigious Henry Hoyns Fellowship, she has taught creative writing at Sweet Briar College, where she was the Margaret Banister Writer in Residence, at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, where she was a visiting writer, and at summer conferences.

Carrie and her husband, the novelist John Gregory Brown, have spent their working lives writing and teaching side by side in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Sweet Briar College, where John Gregory Brown directs the College's creative writing program.

They have published ten books between them and raised three children on the campus at Sweet Briar. Over the years, they have been fortunate to host many of the world's great writers at their home, Sanctuary Cottage, and to introduce those writers and their work to hundreds of students.

Carrie now serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at nearby Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia, where she lives at the University and works with undergraduate and graduate students in the University's esteemed creative writing program. She and her husband travel between the two literary landscapes and enjoy the best of both worlds.

This biography was last updated on 09/17/2013.

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