Rebecca Brown is an Australian writer. Brown is from Tasmania, was the first writer in residence at Richard Hugo House, co-founder of the and now serves as the creative director of literature at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington. Brown's best-known work is her novel The Gifts of the Body, winner of a Lambda Literary Award. Rebecca Brown is also a faculty advisor in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont.