Rebecca Brown is the author of ten books of prose, including The Last Time I Saw You, The End of Youth, Excerpt From A Family Medical Dictionary, The Gifts of the Body, The Terrible Girls, Annie Oakley’s Girl, The Haunted House, The Children’s Crusade, and What Keeps Me Here. Her work has received the Boston Book Review Award for fiction, the Lambda Literary Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and a Washington State Governor’s Award. In 2005, she was appointed Creative Director of Literary Programs at Centrum, an arts center in Port Townsend, Washington. She is a faculty member in the Plainfield, Vermont residency option of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.