Kristen Holt-Browning

Kristen Holt-Browning is a novelist, poet, and freelance copy editor and proofreader. Her debut novel is Ordinary Devotion, a work of historical fiction that moves between fourteenth-century England and a modern college town. She has published a poetry chapbook, The Only Animal Awake in the House, and has a poetry collection, Watershed, listed as forthcoming from Fernwood Press. Her poems and fiction have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Necessary Fiction, and other journals. Hayden's Ferry Review published a 2025 interview with her about Ordinary Devotion. She lives in the Hudson Valley.