Rebecca Brown

Rebecca Brown is the author of a dozen books of prose including “The Last Time I Saw You,” “The End of Youth,” “The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary,” “The Terrible Girls” (all published by City Lights), “Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary” (University of Wisconsin and Granta), “The Gifts of the Body” (HarperCollins) and “Woman in an Ill Fitting Wig,” a collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer (pistilbooks.net). Her work is translated into Japanese, German, Danish, Italian and Norwegian and widely anthologized. Brown has also written a libretto for a dance opera, “The Onion Twins” and a play, “The Toaster,” and is currently co-editing a book with Mary Jane Knecht of the Frye Museum on which Northwest writers respond to work in the Frye Collection. Rebecca teaches in the M.F.A. program at Goddard College in Vermont and is creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington (www.centrum.org)