Colwill Brown
Instructor
About Colwill
Colwill Brown is the winner of the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award and author of the novel We Pretty Pieces of Flesh, which was named a Best Book of 2025 by The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Irish Independent, and The London Magazine, shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Born and raised in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK, Colwill holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a James A. Michener Fellowship, and an MA in English literature from Boston College. Her work has received scholarships and awards from the Tin House Summer Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, Ragdale, the Anderson Center, GrubStreet Center for Creative Writing, and elsewhere. For sixteen years she’s lived with ME/CFS, a debilitating neurological disease triggered by a virus that, due to systemic medical neglect, currently has no treatment. A proud Donny lass, she claims to have played bass guitar in (nearly) every rock venue on South Yorkshire’s toilet circuit.