Rosalind Brown was born in 1987, grew up in Cambridge, and now lives in Norwich. She studied English at the University of Oxford, then worked for three years as an English teacher. In 2014 she moved to Norwich to study Creative Writing, and now holds an MA and PhD from the University of East Anglia.
Her work has been published in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Ambit, Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt), Lighthouse, MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture and Propel Magazine.
She is represented by Tracy Bohan at the Wylie Agency.
Practice
Rosalind’s first novel Practice was published in 2024 in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), the USA and Canada (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), in Germany as Übung (Blessing Verlag, trans. Eva Bonné), and in France as Digressions (Plon, trans. Laurence Kiefé), where it was also shortlisted for the Prix du premier roman étranger 2025.
Other work
- ‘Discourse to Self’ (story) in Harper’s Magazine, November 2024
- ‘On A.S. Byatt’ (essay) for The Paris Review Redux, 30 June 2024
- ‘An Illegible Quartet’ (essay) in The Paris Review Daily, November 2023
- ‘A Narrow Room’ (story) in The Paris Review 245, Fall 2023
- ‘The Courtyard’ (poem) in Propel Magazine 2, November 2022
- ‘A Heatseeking Erotics of Pleasurable Conversions – or, “Writing”‘ (talk/essay), MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, 6 June 2019/ 14 June 2021
- ‘Herb Garden’ (story) in Ambit 231, January 2018
- ‘General Impression of Size and Shape’ (story) in Lighthouse 11, March 2016. Reprinted in the anthology Best British Short Stories 2017 ed. Nicholas Royle (Salt)
Interviews
- Gagosian Quarterly (magazine), Winter 2024 (scroll to page 156 of the Issuu version)
- So Many Damn Books (podcast), episode 231, 24 October 2024
Rights and media
For permissions enquiries, please contact the Wylie Agency. For publicity/rights/media queries, please contact Leanne Oliver at Orion (English-language editions excluding USA and Canada) or Rose Sheehan at Farrar, Straus & Giroux (USA and Canada).
The high-res author image below can be used free of charge for media pieces – please credit Dougie Evans.
Rosalind Brown 
