Loranne Brown, Mfa

Biography

Loranne Brown has worked in almost every form of creative writing. Her first novel, The Handless Maiden, was published by Doubleday Canada in 1998 and was short-listed for a number of awards. For her BA, she specialized in English, with an emphasis in creative writing, at the University of Toronto and obtained graduate-level credits in editing and technical writing at Harvard. Firmly committed to life-long learning, she completed her MFA in creative writing (fiction and nonfiction) at Pacific University near Portland, Oregon, in January 2011.  Her creative thesis—a novel entitled After the Fact of Fire—is based on the 1989 crash of Air Ontario Flight 1363 near Dryden, Ontario.

Research Interest

Arts, Media + Culture