Brown, Rebecca

Rebecca Brown is an American lesbian author whose work has contributed significantly to contemporary gay and lesbian literature. In addition to her writing, Brown is also well known for her teaching, activism and outreach efforts in the Puget Sound literary community. Brown was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House and has taught there frequently ever since. She is the co-founder of the Jack Straw Writers Program and now serves as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, heading the popular summer writers conference there. Her first novel, The Haunted Hous...