Rosalind Brackenbury was born in England, has lived in France and Scotland, and now lives in Key West, Florida, with her American husband. She studied at Girton College, Cambridge and received a degree in history. She has always written both fiction and poetry and has been widely published in both. Her two grown children live in the UK. In 2007 and 2012 she was Creative Writing Fellow at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg,VA. In January 2013 she took part in the Key West Literary Seminar, "Writers on Writers" and appeared on a panel with COLM TOIBIN.Among her recent novels are the New York Times-reviewed BECOMING GEORGE SAND - ("Brackenbury writes the body well...") published by Houghton Mifflin, NY and Random House, Canada in 2007 and THE THIRD SWIMMER, based on a true story of the aftermath of World War 2, published by Daniel & Daniel in May 2016. THE THIRD SWIMMER is now available in a new paperback edition and on Kindle. In 2016 it won the Indie Silver award for fiction.In 2018 she returned with two novels with a French flavor: PARIS STILL LIFE in which Gaby, adrift in Paris after leaving her American husband, pursues a missing painting left to her by her dead father and struggles with the false and the true in both love and the art world; and THE LOST LOVE LETTERS OF HENRI FOURNIER, a three-level narrative of loss, renewed love and second chances, about the passion of the novelist Fournier and his lover, Pauline, just before the outbreak of World War I.PARIS STILL LIFE was published in January 2018 by Lake Union; THE LOST LOVE LETTERS in July 2018.,MISS STEPHEN’S APPRENTICESHIP, a study of the youth and early work of Virginia Woolf, was published by the University of Iowa Press on March 16, 2018. Her newest poetry collection, INVISIBLE HORSES came out with Hanging Loose Press in May 2019.Brackenbury's latest novel WITHOUT HER came out from Delphinium Press on July 23, 2019. It's a story of lifelong friendship, love, and the conflict that can arise between the two. Claudia is summoned from the US to France by her old friend Hannah's husband to help search for her when she suddenly disappears, and has to examine their early life together as girls at an English boarding school and students at Cambridge University as well as their relationship to the man they met on the train when they were young...ANNIE DILLARD wrote of it "I love this book."Her novella ELENA, LEO, ROSE was published in 2022. " A love story that poses fundamental questions, and a definite page-turner," wrote SUE ROE, author of LIVES OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS."Rosalind Brackenbury deserves major attention for her major accomplishments. She keeps turning out beautifully-written, smart, absorbing novels that satisfy me in every way. WITHOUT HER, about love and friendship changing with age, is her best yet." PHYLLIS ROSE, author of THE SHELF, PARALLEL LIVES, MY YEAR OF READING PROUST.A new novel, BONE WHISPERS, will be out with Epicenter Press in the near future.Read more about this authorRead less about this author