Biography

Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: a collection of stories, Ten Women Who Shook the World, and three novels, The Metaphysical Touch, Pages for You, and The Delivery Room, a novel the London Times called "intensely intelligent and highly readable" and the Observer "outstanding. . . a marvelous novel."

Sylvia’s works have been included in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times lists of notable fictions and have been translated into several languages, and she has won a Lambda award for fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Zoetrope: All Story, the art journal frieze, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as several anthologies. "The Bird Chick" was read on BBC Radio 4 and "Amazon" was one of NPR's Selected Shorts. In addition to writing fiction, Sylvia Brownrigg has also taught at the American University in Paris and been widely published as a reviewer and critic.

In May of 2008 Counterpoint Press will publish Sylvia’s newest work, Morality Tale, a short novel about the triangular complications of a modern marriage, and the comedy that flows from them. Ann Packer has called Morality Tale, "A bulletin from the front lines: timely, true, and at its heart surprisingly tender."

Sylvia grew up in Los Altos, California, and Oxford, England, was educated at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities, and lived for many years in London. She is married and lives in Berkeley with her husband and their children. The family continues to spend time in England.