Corinne Joy Brown
48 Cherry Lane Drive, Englewood, CO 80113 
303-753-6353 · Cell 720-480-7173 · corinne@corinnejoybrown.com 
www.corinnejoybrown.com 


Corinne Joy Brown is a Denver native and freelance writer who covers the arts, entrepreneurs and leaders in the metro Denver community. She has a passion for Western culture and has been a staff writer since 1998 for Persimmon Hill, the magazine of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in OKC, Oklahoma. She's also a senior writer at Working Ranch Magazine in Henderson, Nevada, and a staff writer at Western & English Today, a Dallas-based trade publication to the Western and English apparel and gear industries since 1997.
Previously, a trained specialist in design and interiors, (BFA, Boston University, BID Interior Design Institute, ASID) her work also appears in Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, Architecture and Design of the West, Southwest Art and Colorado Expressions.

Corinne is an award-winning member of the Denver Woman's Press Club. She's won top writer of the year award twice for excellence in journalism, fiction and poetry (The Millie). She is a longtime member of Western Writers of America and a charter member of Women Writing the West.

Her first historical novel, MacGregor's Lantern, a story of the cattle barons of the late 1800's in Colorado and Wyoming, was released by Thorndike Five Star Press in July of 2001. It is under film opt by Sladek Entertainment of Los Angeles, CA. Her last novel, co-written with Junior Michael Ray, Sanctuary Ranch, was released in April, 2006.

Her second novel Sanctuary Ranch, (Five Star /Cengage), co-written with Junior Michael Ray, was released in May of '06 and optioned for film by Talmarc Productions of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Her first children's book was released in June, 2006.(Wishful Watoosi-The Horse That Wished He Wasn't, by Coyote Moon Publishing. Her first non-fiction work, "Come and Get It!-The Saga of Western Themed Dinnerware" will be released in November, 2010 by Johnson Books (Big Earth Publishing), Boulder, CO.

Corinne was the creator and director of WritingtheWest from 2000-2005, a western literary and music workshop established in 2000 in Gunnison, Colorado, now known as Writing the Rockies and run by Western State College.

A partner with her husband in a contemporary home furnishings and design business since 1976, (Roche Bobois International Design), Corinne lives in Englewood, Colorado, has a grown son, and two remarkable Rottweilers.						 
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