Evan Brooke

Fall 2026!

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Photo of children's books: And Tango Makes Three, The Name Jar, The New Kid, Freckleface Strawberry

Books change lives. Small minds = big, stupid fears.

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Thanks!!

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Photo of cardboard box filled with book notes, newspaper articles, and other research.

I wrote a novel about hard-earned, unconventional friendship, caregiving and taking, living and dying on your own terms, women on Wall Street—and fly fishing. Still a long way to go, but I'm thrilled to share that I've signed with the wondrous agent Natalie Edwards of Trellis Literary Management.

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Photo of felled birdhouse with quote from Walden.

Erasure poem.

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Gettysburg Review is where I first published "Big Me," one of my favorite stories I've ever written. Their support when I was a young writer made such a huge difference.

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Distraction from that book research.

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Book research. Things were looking up for the spinsters in 1903!

“For the benefit of the spinsters in this country, the census office has made a careful reckoning of the number of men in the various States of the Union who are available matrimonially.”

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Edwidge Danticat on Living and Writing in DeSantis' Florida In recent legislation in her home state of Florida, Edwidge Danticat hears echoes of the oppressive regimes in Haiti that her family fled.

“All it takes is one irate parent pushing the law to its limits to make an example of you and put you in jail.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/a448...

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