A Novel Memory Palace by Author Eli Brown

Eli Brown's culinary pirate novel, CINNAMON AND GUNPOWDER, was called "...Babette’s Feast meets Pirates of the Caribbean!” by Library Journal. It was a finalist for the California Book Award, a San Francisco Public Library One-City One-Book selection, and an NPR Book Review Staff Pick.

His recent duology for middle-school readers, Oddity and Mooncussers, offers a gritty fantasy world of magical objects set in an alternate nineteenth century America. 

In addition to writing, Brown has worked as a groundskeeper, a massage therapist and, most recently, a stay-at-home dad. 

A Yaddo fellow and featured reader at Litquake, Brown earned his MFA from Mills college. He lives with his family in Sebastopol where the squirrels bury acorns in his garden and cats bury worse.