Brooke Stevens

MA, The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. His first novel, The Circus of the Earth and the Air (Harcourt), was a “New and Noteworthy Paperback” for The New York Times, a nominee for the Barnes and Noble Discover award, a finalist for the World Fantasy award, and featured in People Magazine and Vanity Fair. John Barth called it “a vivid, sustained, and scarifying dream.” In 2001, The Washington Post Book World said of his second novel, “Tattoo Girl [St. Martin's Press] is as much about being sad as it is about being terrified, and there Stevens has worked a charm that will keep you in your seat and reading, even when you’d rather not, even when you wish for something to break the spell.” The novel was also published in the United Kingdom, where it appeared on bestseller lists; it was later translated into Japanese, French, and German. In 2004, his third book, Kissing Your Ex (Penguin), was a finalist, along with Jodi Picoult, Elizabeth Berg, and Ann Tyler, for the Romantic Times Best Women’s Fiction of 2004. SLC, 2011—