Desiree Browne is a Brooklyn-based narrative nonfiction writer. Her culture reporting has appeared in The Village Voice, New York Observer, The Awl, MarieClaire.com and other outlets. She was a 2025 Tin House Fellow (now McCormack Writing Center), 2023 Roots. Wounds. Words. Winter Writers’ Retreat for Storytellers of Color and a 2021 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Voices of Color fellow. Her personal essays have been published in “Midnight & Indigo” and Gotham Writers Workshop’s Razor magazine. Most recently, her essay “A Browne Never Quits” appeared in “Pretty Little Brick: Rituals of Rage, Safety & Pleasure”, an experimental anthology from The Free Black Women’s Library, featuring New York City-based Black women+ writers.
Creative
- Did I Tell You About David? Midnight & Indigo (featured on Longreads)
- Hasta el amanecer, Gotham’s The Razor
Arts, Entertainment & Lifestyle
The Village Voice
- Ariel Alexis Brings Her Gentle Folk-Pop Sound to Bushwick
- I contributed a blurb to the Voice’s Record Store Day coverage: Beyond the Hype: The Voice Goes Rogue for Record Store Day
- Plus, a sidebar Casa Amadeo’s Stacks Are Gold for Young and Old
- Fifteen Cities, 15,000 Miles and 500 Amazing Photos of the Early ’60s American Jazz Scene
- The Forgotten Architects of Jazz – and the New York Women Bringing Them Back
New York Observer
- Sex On The Beach’s Creator on Humanizing the Caribbean’s Sex Tourism Industry
- Marshall Pailet on Bringing Back ‘Jurassic Park’ as a Musical
- Preacher Prince: “I’m Something That You’ll Never Comprehend”
- A Friend in Tweed: Bowties and Crumpets for the Serious Vintage Set
- Opening Doors: Mayer Hawthorne Branches Out
The Awl
- Maybe Sex is the Least Fun Thing Two People Can Do
- Our Culture Needs Better Monsters: An Interview with Brian McGreevy
- My Gigwalk Experiment
Urban Ink Magazine (print)
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender 2015
Service Journalism and Content Marketing
Elle.com
Everything You Need to Know About Scalp Micropigmentation
Thrillist, sponsored by Remy Martin
The Sidecar: Simple Recipe, Complex History
News articles for the USC Dworak-Peck School of Social Work:
- Bringing Health and Wellness Into the Workplace
- Giving DACA Students the Tools to Thrive at USC and Beyond
- What Do Community Organizers Do?
- Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children and Adolescents through Virtual Therapy