Adrienne Brodeur is the bestselling author of the novel Little Monsters (2023), a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Vogue Best Book of 2023, and the memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (2019), which The New York Times Book Review called “exquisite and harrowing,” praising it as “gorgeously written and deeply insightful.” Her forthcoming novel, Love This Day, will be published in 2027.

Wild Game is currently in development as a limited television series with Warner Bros. Television and 6th & Idaho. Brodeur is also adapting Little Monsters for the screen for filmmaker Nat Faxon’s production company.

Brodeur has spent most of her professional life discovering literary voices and cultivating talent. In 1996, she co-founded the fiction magazine Zoetrope: All-Story with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and served as its editor-in-chief until 2002. The magazine has received four National Magazine Awards for Fiction. She later worked as an editor at Harcourt and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she acquired and edited literary fiction and memoir.

She is the Executive Director of Aspen Words, a literary arts nonprofit and program of the Aspen Institute. In 2017, she launched the Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 annual award honoring an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates literature’s power to shape thought and culture. In 2025, she launched the Aspen Literary Festival, an annual celebration bringing together acclaimed writers and readers in downtown Aspen.

Brodeur divides her time between Cambridge and Cape Cod, where she lives with her husband and children.