Abby Brown (b. 1982) is a British novelist and essayist whose work explores sound, landscape, and community memory through inventive fiction and reflective nonfiction. Raised in Nottinghamshire, she studied social anthropology and sound studies at the University of Manchester, later producing community radio in Leeds and cataloguing oral histories in West Yorkshire archives—experiences that shaped her interest in how places remember themselves.
Abby Brown's fiction ranges from intimate realism to folkloric fable, often incorporating the textures of field recordings, work songs, and local myth. She is the author of the story collection Salt in the Speaker (2016), the novella The Latchkey Fog (2019), and the novel Crossing The River of Silence (2023). Her essays and audio pieces consider listening as a civic act and have appeared in small magazines and on community airwaves. She lives in Hebden Bridge with her wife and a retired greyhound.
