About

Branden’s debut YA graphic novel will be published in Fall 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in places like Alaska Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain, Third Coast, and Anthropoid, and been honored with a grant from the Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the A Room of her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize, and as a runner-up for the inaugural Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize. A desert rat by fate, Branden was born and raised in Palm Springs and the Joshua Tree area, and spent three years in Tempe getting her MFA at Arizona State University. She and her partner currently live in Los Angeles in an apartment with their many antiques.