Awards & Honors
Modern Girls A USA Today bestseller • A Massachusetts Book Award “Must Read” • 2017 Housatonic Book Award finalist in Fiction • 2016 Goodreads Choice semifinalist for Historical Fiction
The Codeine of Jordan selected as a notable essay in The Best American Travel Writing 2012
Romanian Fish Southeast Review, winner of the 2005 World’s Best Short Short Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler
Fiction & Creative Nonfiction
The Life and Death (and Life) of Miami Beach Creative nonfiction In Season: Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places In Between, edited by Jim Ross, March 2018
Surface Routes Creative nonfiction The MacGuffin, Winter 2016
Here But Not Here Creative nonfiction Hippocampus Magazine, January 2016 Read
The Baseness of Nature Short story Fiction Southeast, August 2015 Read
The Codeine of Jordan Creative nonfiction Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9, Travelers Tales / Solas House, Inc., August 2013
This Moment, Right Now Short story Sierra Nevada Review, Spring 2013
The Codeine of Jordan Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2011 Creative nonfiction Read
In Bulgaria Creative nonfiction Sojourn, 2008
This Is What I Do Creative nonfiction Natural Bridge, Fall 2003
What I Learned Living in New York Creative nonfiction Under the Sun, Summer 1998
Articles
‘Windy City Blues’ Explores Racial Tension and Music in 1950s Chicago Book review BookTrib, May 23, 2017 Read
Running Away: A Writer on the Move How running helped make Boston my home Grub Street Blog, November 11, 2016 Read
The Talk: My Daughter’s Uterus, And Other Sex Ed left She Refuses To Discuss With Me Essay on my daughter’s reluctance to discuss sex with me Cognoscenti, October 26, 2016 Read
My Writerly Weakness: A Novel Not about Me? Suggestions on how prepare for National Novel Writing Month NaNoWriMo blog, September 28, 2016 Read
Finding Your Landsfroyen: Friendship Is Important For Women Networking An essay about the importance of female friendships at work Take the Lead: The Movement Blog, August 17, 2016 Read
Confessions of a Non-Beach Person An essay about summer Great Thoughts Blog, July 25, 2016 Read
Author Jennifer S. Brown on Writing, Feminism, and the Importance of Having a Support Group An interview about the writing life and Modern Girls Reflections of a Reader Blog, July 14, 2016 Read
Leaving Your Comfort Zone: Reading Out of Genre The benefits of expanding your reading horizons Women’s Writers, Women’s Books, July 5, 2016 Read
Writer’s Life: Jennifer Brown An interview about parenting and writing Confessions of Motherhood Blog, May 25, 2016 Read
Perfect Books for Mothers A curated list of books about mothers Read It Forward, May 2016 Read
Rose’s Choice An essay about learning of my great-grandmother’s abortion, which was the inspiration for MODERN GIRLS JW Magazine, April 12, 2016 Read
Guest Post: Debut Novelist Jennifer S. Brown Was Too Busy To Write A Novel. Until She Decided She Wasn’t. Women’s Fiction Writers, April 7, 2016 Read
When a Novel Is a Long Time Coming 1st Books Blog, April 6, 2016 Read
Jennifer S. Brown, Author of “Modern Girls,” Talks Mother-Daughter Drama and Choosing Abortion in the 1930s The Lilith Blog, April 5, 2016 Read
Author Jennifer Brown Talks About How to Research a Novel, Conquering Rejection, and Writing Even When It Hurts Huffington Post, HuffPost Books, April 5, 2016 Read
Facing the Edits: 7 Steps to a Happy Revision Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents blog, March 20, 2016 Read
Weekly blogger at The Debutante Ball September 2015 to August 2016 Read