Brian Broome, Author
About Brian
Brian Broome is an author of remarkable talent, whom we’ve had the pleasure of calling our friend for many years.
His debut memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods, was an NYT Editor’s Pick and won the 2021 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. His work has also appeared in Hippocampus, Poets and Writers, Medium, and more. Brian was a K. Leroy Irvis Fellow and an instructor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
He has been a finalist in The Moth storytelling competition and won the grand prize in Carnegie Mellon University’s Martin Luther King Writing
Awards. Brian also won a VANN Award from the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation for journalism in 2019. His film, Garbage, won the Audience Choice Award at the Cortada Short Film Festival and was a semi-finalist in the Portland Short Fest.
His second books is forthcoming.
What we love about working with Brian:
We’ve worked with Brian twice - once in 2018 and again in 2026. Both times were fun, funny, and laid-back.
Although his publisher chose a different direction for his author photo on his first book, he committed to coming back to us for photos for his second book. That meant a lot.
We’ve been friends with Brian for years, but we don’t see him often. We are homebodies, preferring to snuggle Jeanie on the couch, and Brian is too, preferring to snuggle his cat, Esther, on his couch (when she allows it). So we’re quite simpatico, just separately in our own homes. Opportunities to work together present a delightful opportunity to see each other IRL.