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Brooke Champagne

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Brooke Champagne was born and raised in New Orleans, LA, and now writes and teaches in Tuscaloosa at the University of Alabama. She was awarded the inaugural William Bradley Prize for the Essay for her piece "Exercises," which was published in The Normal School and listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2019. Her writing has appeared widely in print and online journals, most recently in Barrelhouse, Tahoma Literary Review, and Hunger Mountain. She won the 2022 March Faxness Essay National Championship Tournament with her essay on Aimee Mann’s cover of the song “One.” Her debut essay collection, Nola Face, will be published with the Crux Series in Literary Nonfiction at the University of Georgia Press in 2024.

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