About

Britta’s writing appears in The Common, Tupelo Quarterly, World Literature Today, Beyond Words Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bending Genres Journal, Necessary Fiction, On The Seawall, Marin Independent Journal and other publications. She was a finalist for the Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, SF Writer’s Grotto, PEN, and a Committee Member for Litquake. She has been a frequent reader for the Firecracker Awards and reads for Flash Fiction Magazine. A former editor for Tuxedo Literature & Arts Journal & FastForward Magazine, Britta has authored award-winning children’s books. She holds an MFA from Dominican University, CA, an M.A. from American University, and a Certificate in Novel Writing from Stanford University.

She has interviewed a variety of authors and business leaders, including Ruta Sepetys,  Premal Shah (co-founder of Kiva.org) and Stedman Graham. Britta’s is a teaching artist at Marin School of the Arts, CA. She is currently working on a  novel and a collection of personal essays. When Britta is not dreaming, drafting or discovering new characters, she enjoys time with her family, horseback riding, and reading picture books, fantastic middle-grade adventures, and social justice YA novels with her kids.

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