Brooke Stevens is an American novelist. His first novel, The Circus of the Earth and the Air, was a nominee for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in 1994 and a finalist for the World Fantasy Award in 1995. He has published two subsequent novels, not works of fantasy, and has taught creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. His work has been translated into French, German and Japanese and it has also been published in the UK. He lives in Kent, Connecticut.