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Rebecca Brown

American writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1956 · age 70

Rebecca Brown is an American novelist, essayist, playwright, artist, and professor. She was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program, and served as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington from 2005 to 2009.

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Awards

Judy Grahn Award2010
Lambda Literary Award1995

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Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, which won a Lambda Literary Award in 1994. Rebecca Brown is an Emeritus faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and is also a multi-media artist whose work has been displayed in galleries such as the Frye Art Museum.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1956 · age 70

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