Ingrid Brown is a British-Portuguese novelist and former archivist whose work bridges quiet lives and seismic histories. Born in 1983 in Exeter and raised between Devon and Lisbon, she studied history at the University of St Andrews before earning an M.A. in archival studies. Her debut, Harbor of Ashes (2021), was longlisted for the North Sea Book Prize, and her story cycle Weather for Departures won the Fenland New Voices Award.
Ingrid Brown has volunteered with oral-history projects documenting immigrant rail workers in Barreiro and curated ephemera at a maritime museum in Setúbal. She lives in York with her partner and a salvaged station clock that never keeps perfect time, and is known for weaving clocks, maps, and small acts of courage into layered narratives.
