Briana McDonald’s debut middle grade novel, Pepper’s Rules for Secret Sleuthing, will be available through Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in Fall 2020. Her fiction has appeared in several university presses and journals. She reviews prose at The Literary Review and a reader for CLMP’s Firecracker Awards.

When she’s not writing, Briana works as an Academic Advisor at Columbia University. She is represented by Jennie Kendrick at Red Fox Literary.