I am Briana Collins. I'm an author who writes short stories, middle grade, and YA novels.
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In addition to writing, my experience includes working as a Senior Advisor at City Hall to New York City's Mayor Bloomberg where I wrote press releases and speeches for the Mayor and other appointed officials; running the Mayor's Commission for Women; serving on the board of Chicago's Neighborhood Parent Network (NPN), writing for Scholastic, Inc.'s SuperScience Magazine and The Cornell Chronicle; and being a mom to two boys (a full-time job unto itself)!
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I am seeking representation for my middle-grade novel: The House on Old West End: A McKinley Kids Adventure as well as my current YA work-in-progress: 11 Good Eggs.
TESTIMONIALS
This was gripping! Wow....as a crime writer and a real fan of true crime (that sounds ghoulish, but so be it), I found the blow off really amazing.
- C.E. Lawrence, Author of the Lee Campbell "Silent" series
Collins packs plenty of dramatic tension through sparse, lucid prose that is realistically and movingly rendered.
- Paul Coco, Author and former Associate Media Editor, Scholastic Classroom Publications
Briana Collins – for whatever genre she is writing, grips the reader immediately into the lives of others. So perceptive
of human behavior, she is able to wind a story around emotions that we all know, that we have all felt. Briana begins a story and the reader races to the end, only wanting more.
- Anne Sutherland Fuchs,
former Publisher of Vogue, Woman's Day, Elle, and Group Publishing Director, Hearst Magazines
Recent News
My short story "Grip" was published in Chicago Suburbs' Daily Herald newspaper as the first place winner for Prose in the 2017 Annual Arts Unlimited Contest!