,
Avery  Brooks

year in books

Avery Brooks’s Followers (14)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
Kimberly
289 books | 208 friends


Avery Brooks

Goodreads Author


Born
The United States
Website

Genre

Member Since
August 2020


Avery Brooks grew up on the East Coast and has spent the years since gradually moving west. She has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology and has spent much of her life studying dominance, climate change, social justice issues, and human rights atrocities. While conducting postdoctoral research in New Orleans, she fell in love with the city, which has featured prominently in her writing. She has taught at multiple universities, but her most rewarding experiences involved teaching interdisciplinary courses on dominance, climate change, and LGBTQ+ studies.

Avery is a graduate of the 2018 Golden Crown Literary Society's Writing Academy. Her novel Other Girls was a 2020 Goldie Finalist in Contemporary Romance. When she's not busy reading and writing f
...more

Average rating: 3.9 · 182 ratings · 29 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Other Girls

3.91 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Beautiful Disasters (An Oth...

3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Slamming Bricks: An Anthology

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Avery’s Recent Updates

Beautiful Disasters by Avery  Brooks
"So much to savor and enjoy in this book (4.5 stars)
Beautiful Disasters is the second book in a series but can be read as a standalone story; those who have read book one, Other Girls, will recognize several characters here including Sam, Ash, Jake an" Read more of this review »
Avery Brooks rated a book it was amazing
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Rate this book
Clear rating
More of Avery's books…
No comments have been added yet.