Brett Ellen Block

Brett Ellen Block was born and raised in Summit, New Jersey. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the Hopwood and Haugh prizes for fiction writing. She went on to earn graduate degrees at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of East Anglia's Fiction Writing Program in England.Writing under her full name, Brett Ellen Block, she won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize for her debut collection of short stories, Destination Known, and is a recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Grave of God’s Daughter, as well as the Macavity Award-nominated thriller, The Lightning Rule.