Rip Brown is a member of The Writer's Room, New York City’s first and most acclaimed professional writers' colony.  He studied creative writing at the Harvard Extension School, led writer’s groups and won first prize in Digital Americana’s short fiction competition with an excerpt from his novel, American Faust.  A former Wal-Mart executive with an MBA, Brown turned to writing serious fiction when his daughters became a manageable age.  He lives and works in New York City.