Brooke Champagne is the author of Nola Face:  A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy, a silver medalist in Southern Nonfiction at the 2024 IPPY Awards.  Her writing appears widely in literary journals and has received various awards, including the inaugural William Bradley Prize for the Essay for her work “Exercises.”  She won the 2022 March Faxness National Championship Essay Tournament with her essay on Aimee Mann’s cover of the song “One.” Her essays have been selected as Notables in several editions of Best American Essays.  She is the recipient of the 2023-2024 Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship in Prose. Champagne serves as Book Reviews Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Narrative Nonfiction. She lives with her husband and children in Tuscaloosa, where she is an Assistant Professor of English in the MFA Program in creative writing at the University of Alabama.