Blackbird ArchiveCarrie Brown
Carrie Brown is the author of seven novels, most recently The Stargazer’s Sister (Pantheon Books, 2015). She is the author of the short story collection The House on Belle Isle (Algonquin Books, 2002). Her short stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train , Southern Review , Tin House , The Georgia Review , the Oxford American , and elsewhere. She received a 2004 literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 1998 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for her first novel, Rose’s Garden (Algonquin Books, 1998), and the 2000 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for The Hatbox Baby (Algonquin Books, 2000).
Hiba Krisht is a professional translator from Beirut. Her stories have been published in The Kenyon Review , Hayden’s Ferry Review , and Mizna , among others. She is a recipient of the 2012 Jane Foulkes Malone Fellowship from Indiana University and the 2013 JoAnn Athanas Memorial Award in literature from the National Society of Arts and Letters (Bloomington, Indiana Chapter). She has been interviewed about her life and work by VICE News, BBC Radio, and Grazia Daily , among others. Photo by Tony Duvall