Colwill Brown was born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and is based in Austin, Texas, where she is an MFA candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, and Fiction Editor at Bat City Review. Recipient of the Wellspring House Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, the Henry Blackwell Essay Prize and a Crawley-Garwood Research Grant, her writing has received fellowships and awards from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Tin House, Boston College, Kansas State University, the Anderson Center and GrubStreet.
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