Jen Brown (she/her) is a black, queer speculative fiction writer & 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 coordinated the Hugo-nominated FIYAHCON’s Office Hours program.

An Ignyte Award nominated author, her fiction centers bi/pan+ black women righteously wielding power. She has stories published in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Anathema: Spec from the Margins, and others. Her stories also appear in collected anthologies like We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, 2021 and Tor.com’s Breathe FIYAH.