About Corinne Joy Brown
photo credit: E J Carr, Avid Lifestyles Magazine
Corinne freelances for a variety of print publications, including “Colorado Expression” magazine, “Cowboys & Indians”, “Western Art & Architecture”, “Colorado Life” and others. She was formerly a staff writer for “Working Ranch” magazine,”True West” and “Persimmon Hill”, the publication of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma.
Since, 2015, Corinne has been the editor-in chief of “HaLapid,” the semi-annual magazine of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies, a secular, academic organization committed to the study of the forcefully converted Iberian Jews of the Middle Ages and their global descendants.
As a multi-award winning, published author, she is currently working on her eleventh book. Her current focus is on Western pop-culture. She is looking forward to releasing more historical fiction with her new publisher Spring Cedars. You can also find her work in Western Art and Architecture magazine, as curator of “Things We Love.”
Yes, this is me.
Yes, this is me.The other me. I’ve ridden horses all of my life—not just ridden, I’ve followed the Colorado Trail on horseback for 100 miles, forded streams, competed in horse shows, cleaned stalls, and groomed animals until I smelled like one. But most of you know me as a business woman and/or a writer, right?
Guess what? The real me is a cowgirl, even though I live in the city and only imagine living the life. But that’s what gave me the idea to write the only little guide you’ll ever need titled
“How to Be an Urban Cowgirl and Find Your Inner West.”
Now Available! | With thanks to Spring Cedars Publishing
Media Events and Interviews
From time-to-time, Corinne is invited to participate in a variety of online discussions or as a featured guest.
I was recently profiled in Canvas Rebel.
“Alright, Corinne Joy thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s jump right into how you came up with the idea?”
After years of attending Western events like rodeos and Western music festivals, plus writing about Western culture, I noticed that most of the people who buy tickets to the concerts, love line dancing, and who watch the popular Western TV serials by Taylor Sheridan, weren’t actually people who lived the life. They just loved the heritage, the romance and the culture. And of course, the clothes! That’s what prompted me to write my latest book “How to Be An Urban Cowgirl and Find Your Inner West.” Pre-reviews have confirmed my concept; that we (the urbanites) are the ones that drive the business, fill the grandstands and cheer the cowboys on. In my mind, the time had come.. Kudos to all the urban cowgirls who only wished they were.
Pines & Plains Libraries Interview Corinne
A two-part video
Corinne with attorney/musician Lorenzo Trujillo at Hidden Star event 2016
Corinne at Latino Literary Book Awards, Los Angeles, CA 2016
Corinne is a professional member and past president of the Denver Woman’s Press Club; a founding member of Women Writing the West, a member of Western Writers of America and the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. She was named a Fellow of the University of Colorado History Dept in 2014.
Corinne is an alumnae of Boston University’s School of Fine and Applied Arts, did post-graduate studies in Art History at D.U. and has a graduate degree in design from the Interior Design Institute. She was the original founder of Writing the West, a 20 year accredited writing program held at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. (Now Western Colorado University.)
Corinne and her husband own a home furnishings gallery founded in 1976 (Zoli Contemporary Living) and are importers of European high-end home furnishings. Corinne is an Allied Member of the American Society of Interior Designers. When not writing, she spends her free time designing jewelry and playing with their German Shepherd.
Hidden Star Book Launch , Tattered Cover 2016
Corinne with Lloyd Lewis, CEO arc Thrift Stores, “Why Not Them?” Tattered Cover book launch
