Writers Series: Adrienne Brodeur

The Writers Series exposes Richmond students, the greater university community, and city residents to some of today’s most celebrated writers. Readings are free and open to the public, though seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Join the English Department and Creative Writing Program for a reading by Adrienne Brodeur from her novel, Little Monsters, followed by a Q&A and book signing.

Adrienne Brodeur is the best-selling author of the novel Little Monsters (Simon & Schuster, 2023), a New York Times editors’ choice and a Vogue best book of 2023, and the memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me (Mariner Books, 2019). Brodeur founded the magazine Zoetrope: All-Story with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, where she served as editor-in-chief from 1996-2002. In 2005, she became an editor at Harcourt, where she acquired and edited literary fiction and memoir. In 2013, Brodeur became Creative Director — and later Executive Director — of Aspen Words, the iconic literary arts nonprofit and program of the Aspen Institute. In 2017, she launched the Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture. Brodeur splits her time between Cambridge and Cape Cod, where she lives with her husband and children.

The Writers Series is sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Arts & Sciences.