karson brown
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Karson Brown grew up sailing and living aboard boats in the Pacific Northwest. She turned twenty-one on a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea and crossed the Atlantic Ocean aboard a thirty-four-foot sailboat during hurricane season before turning thirty. Karson raised her two children along the shores of Vashon Island surrounded by a menagerie of critters. She is a writer, photographer, artist, and lifelong devotee of water. Karson is an alumna of Joyce Maynard’s “Write By The Lake Workshop,” in Guatemala. She currently resides on Alki Beach collecting shells and befriending seagulls. 48 Days to Barbados is her debut memoir and will be released by Red Fern Press October 20, 2026. Pre-order your Kindle copy today on Amazon. Stay tuned to redfernpress.pub for additional pre-order options.
48 Days to Barbados
In 1999, 28-year-old Karson Brown and her best friend embarked on a simple journey: they were going to help a woman they'd never met navigate her thirty-four-foot sailboat from Portugal to Ft Lauderdale. Their three-week adventure crossing the Atlantic quickly became a fight for survival as contaminated water, a dead engine, and depleted provisions during hurricane season winds threatened their very lives.
In this breathtaking debut memoir, Karson takes readers on a forty-eight-day journey across the ocean where they navigated by the stars, and learned that the greatest challenges weren’t the towering waves or electrical storms, but the demons they had brought aboard with them.
You can pre-order your Kindle copy from Amazon now.
she considered staying
arriving in november 2025
Karson Brown’s microfiction piece “She Considered Staying” will join several others in the upcoming Vine Leaves Press microfiction anthology, 50 Give or Take, in November.
Vine Leaves Press is an indie publisher that blurs “the line between experimental and commercial.” The anthology is available directly from Vine Leaves Press and Amazon.
Trout and Mallard
arriving in 2026
Karson Brown’s first children's book, Trout and Mallard, is a story inspired by walks along a stream in Seattle with Karson’s sister and their children. It’s a tale of two unlikely species who share a body of water and discover through a gentle, inquisitive conversation, that they are more similar than different. Illustrations by Karson’s sister, Britney Straus.
Trout and Mallard
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