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
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Surface Routes
Creative nonfiction
The MacGuffin, Winter 2016

Here But Not Here
Creative nonfiction
Hippocampus Magazine, January 2016
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The Baseness of Nature
Short story
Fiction Southeast, August 2015
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The Codeine of Jordan
Creative nonfiction
Best Women’s Travel Writing, Volume 9, Travelers Tales / Solas House, Inc., August 2013
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This Moment, Right Now
Short story
Sierra Nevada Review, Spring 2013

The Codeine of Jordan
Bellevue Literary Review, Fall 2011
Creative nonfiction
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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
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Running Away: A Writer on the Move
How running helped make Boston my home
Grub Street Blog, November 11, 2016
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The Talk: My Daughter’s Uterus, And Other Sex Ed Topics She Refuses To Discuss With Me
Essay on my daughter’s reluctance to discuss sex with me
Cognoscenti, October 26, 2016
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My Writerly Weakness: A Novel Not about Me?
Suggestions on how prepare for National Novel Writing Month
NaNoWriMo blog, September 28, 2016
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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
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Confessions of a Non-Beach Person
An essay about summer
Great Thoughts Blog, July 25, 2016
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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
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Leaving Your Comfort Zone: Reading Out of Genre
The benefits of expanding your reading horizons
Women’s Writers, Women’s Books, July 5, 2016
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Writer’s Life: Jennifer Brown
An interview about parenting and writing
Confessions of Motherhood Blog, May 25, 2016
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Perfect Books for Mothers
A curated list of books about mothers
Read It Forward, May 2016
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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
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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
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When a Novel Is a Long Time Coming
1st Books Blog, April 6, 2016
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Jennifer S. Brown, Author of “Modern Girls,” Talks Mother-Daughter Drama
and Choosing Abortion in the 1930s
The Lilith Blog, April 5, 2016
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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
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Facing the Edits: 7 Steps to a Happy Revision
Writer’s Digest Guide to Literary Agents blog, March 20, 2016
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Weekly blogger at The Debutante Ball
September 2015 to August 2016
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