Jen Brown (she/her) is a black, queer speculative fiction writer & academic librarian. Critical praxis guides her community building work, which includes formerly serving as an admin for We Here and coordinating the Hugo-nominated FIYAHCON’s Office Hours program.

An Ignyte Award nominated author and Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop ’25), her fiction centers Black queer folks righteously wielding power. She has stories in FIYAH Literary Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, Reactor, and elsewhere. Her stories also appear in collected anthologies like We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction (2021) and Sentir la revolución.

Jen is represented by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency.