Hello! I’m a writer, mostly of fiction. My novel DEEP CUTS will be published in March 2025 by Crown Publishing, and by The Borough Press in the UK (here’s an article about the UK deal).

I was born and raised in Hope, British Columbia, a small town known primarily (only?) for being the filming location of the first Rambo movie. At 18 I moved to the States, where I studied English at UC Berkeley and got an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University. Instead of putting this education to any sort of literary use, I spent the next decade running around San Francisco and New York, working in trend research and branding, and basically making a career of going out. I now live with my husband and two daughters in a creaky old house in Portland, Oregon, where I prefer to stay in—and write.

My literary agent is Anna Stein: anna.stein@caa.com

My film/tv agent is Jiah Shin: jiah.shin@caa.com

Or feel free to email me! hbrickley@gmail.com

Photo taken by Susan Seubert at the great Sandy Hut (I still go out sometimes).