Brittany Ackerman is a writer from Riverdale, New York. Her first collection of essays entitled The Perpetual Motion Machine was published with Red Hen Press in 2018, and her debut novel The Brittanys is out now with Vintage.
She earned her BA in English from Indiana University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida Atlantic University. She has led workshops for UCLA’s Extension, The Porch, Catapult, HerStry, Write or Die, and Lighthouse Writers. She currently teaches writing at Vanderbilt University in the English Department. She is a 3x Pushcart Prize Nominee and her work has been featured in Electric Literature, Jewish Book Council, Lit Hub, The Los Angeles Review, No Tokens, Joyland, and more. Her first collection of essays, The Perpetual Motion Machine, was published with Red Hen Press in 2018, and her debut novel, The Brittanys, is out now with Vintage. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Praise & Press for The Brittanys
Starred Review in Shelf Awareness 2021
Skylit Podcast Interview Skylight Bookstore
Gulf Coast Life Book Club Interview- WGCU
The Desk Set Podcast Interview King County Library System
“On Deciding to Tell My Story in a Novel Instead of a Memoir” Lit Hub
“Menorah in the Mall: My Jewish Identity as a Florida Teen” Jewish Book Council
A Review of The Brittanys and Interview with Author Brittany Ackerman Prospectus: A Literary Offering “7 Books About Teenage Friendships From the 1970s to the 2000s” Electric Lit
The Brittanys: An Excerpt in Joyland 2021
“38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer” Lit Hub
“The 10 Best New Books to Read This June” HelloGiggles
“2021 Summer Reading List: 48 of the Best Books for Adults, Teens, and Kids” Palm Beach Daily
An Exclusive Q&A with Brittany Ackerman, author of The Brittanys Knopf