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Author Bio
Raised—Los Altos, California, USA
Education—Yale University, Johns Hopkins Uiversity
Awards—Lamda Award for Fiction
Currently—lives in Berkeley, CA


Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: four novels, Morality Tale, The Delivery Room, Pages for You, and The Metaphysical Touch, and a collection of stories, Ten Women Who Shook the World.

Sylvia's works have been included in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times lists of notable fictions and have been translated into several languages, and she has won a Lambda award for fiction.

Her short stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, the art journal Frieze, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as several anthologies. "The Bird Chick" was read on BBC Radio 4 and "Amazon" was one of NPR's Selected Shorts. In addition to writing fiction, Sylvia Brownrigg has also taught at the American University in Paris and been widely published as a reviewer and critic. (From the author's website.)