Thistle & Verse | Jen Brown Interview @ThistleVerse | Uploaded September 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Jen Brown is a black, queer speculative fiction writer & Undergraduate Learning & Research Librarian. Critical pedagogies guide her librarianship & her work as a community manager for We Here, which includes stewarding wonderful projects like We Reads. She also coordinates the Hugo-nominated FIYAHCON’s Office Hours program. Her fiction centers bi/pan+ black women righteously wielding power, and was previously nominated for an Ignyte Award. She has stories published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Tor.com/Breathe FIYAH, Baffling Magazine, and Anathema: Spec from the Margins. Her fiction centers bi/pan+ black women righteously wielding power, and was previously nominated for an Ignyte Award. She has stories published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Tor.com/Breathe FIYAH, Baffling Magazine, and Anathema: Spec from the Margins.

Link to her website: jencbrown.com

Links to her stories
To Rise, Blown Open published in Anathema: anathemamag.com/to-rise-blown-open
Bandit, Reaper, Yours published in Baffling: bafflingmag.com/issue-three/band-reaper-yours
Conjurer's Rites published on TorDotCom: tor.com/2020/10/19/conjurers-rites-jen-brown
While Dragons Claim the Sky published in Fiyah and Podcastle: podcastle.org/2020/07/14/podcastle-635-while-dragons-claim-the-sky-part-1

Acknowledgments
L. P. Kindred: twitter.com/LPKindred
Onyx Pages: youtube.com/c/ONYXPages
Eboni J. Dunbar: twitter.com/sugoionna87