About

Karleigh Frisbie Brogan is the author of Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts , which was an Oregon Book Award Finalist. She is from Sonoma County, California and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. She was a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellow, and the recipient of the 2023 George Pascoe Miller Scholarship for the Community of Writers Workshop, the  2022 Rona Jaffe Scholarship in nonfiction for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a 2020 Regional Arts and Culture Council grant, and the 2019 Tom And Phyllis Burnam Nonfiction Scholarship. Her writing has also been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She  was a 2019 Best American Sports Writing Notable. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, Washington Post, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Lit Hub, Water Stone Review, and elsewhere. She is represented by Miriam Altshuler at DeFiore.