Holly Brown is (in no particular order): a novelist, wife, mother, marriage and family therapist, feminist, poker enthusiast, lover of some incredibly shameful reality TV, and devotee of NPR (she owes a debt of gratitude for inspiring more than one novel.)
As a writer, she tends to be inspired by contemporary events and phenomena. With her first novel Don’t Try to Find Me, she was intrigued by a real-life story about how a parent’s use of social media helped find a runaway daughter. In A Necessary End, she was compelled by all the maddening hoops that people have to jump through in order to adopt a newborn and what this does to their psychologies and their relationships. This is Not Over is an escalating cat-and-mouse between two women after a house rental goes wrong. She likes to take an emotionally charged situation and then imagine the people within it. With How Far She’s Come, her inspiration came from a wholly different source: the incredibly uninspiring 2016 U.S. presidential election. She’s excited to see where her writing will take her next, and hopes you’ll join her for the journey.