BRITTANY PERHAM

Brittany Perham’s new memoir, Executrix (University of Georgia Press), won the 2025 AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is also the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton), which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions); and, with Kim Addonizio, the collaborative word/art project The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP). Her writing has received support from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Hemingway House, the James Merrill House Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship Program, and Yaddo. Recent work in poetry and prose may be found in The Cortland Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly. She taught for fifteen years at Stanford University before joining the English faculty at Endicott College. She lives in San Francisco and Massachusetts.

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