I’m Angela Carole Brown, an author, poet, singer/songwriter, multimedia artist, and recipient of the North Street Book Prize in Literary Fiction, the Soul Word Magazine Poetry Prize, and awards from the Buddha International Film Festival, the Indo Global International Film Festival, and Digifest Temecula.

My books include:
How the Light Gets In (healing & wellness)
Trading Fours  (novel)  (2018 North Street Book Prize Winner in Literary Fiction)
The Assassination of Gabriel Champion  (novel) (Longlisted for the 2022 North Street Book Prize)
Bones  (poetry collection)
Aleatory on the Radio  (100-word-story collection)  (also the subject of a concert by the Metropolitan Master Chorale of Los Angeles, entitled “Short Stories”)
Viscera  (poetry chapbook)
The Kidney Journals: Memoirs of a Desperate Lifesaver  (memoir)
The Night, the City, and Miss Thing  (novelette)
The Richest Girl in the World  (children’s videobook)  (2021 Digifest Temecula Award Winner in Multimedia, and the 2021 Buddha International Film Festival Award & 2022 Indo Global International Film Festival Award for Best Multimedia Film)

Poetry and shorter works appear in:
Midnight & Indigo (A Glint of Amazing Grace) (short story)
Flapper Press Poetry Café (Between Skin and Bone) (book profile + poem) 
Thorny Locust Journal of Poetry  (Exposure) (poem, print only)
MacQueen’s Quinterly (3 drabbles + 5 artworks)
Flapper Press Poetry Café (interview + 4 poems)
MacQueen’s Quinterly (Withheld) (poem)
Echoes Media vMuseum (Sing This World) (essay)
Flapper Press (autumn haiku) (a winner of autumn 2023 “poetry in a snapshot” prize)
Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature Summer 2021 issue (interview + several 100-word stories)
JAZZ FICTION: TAKE TWO,  a collection of essays by David Rife 2021 (excerpt from Trading Fours)
IN THE BLACK / IN THE RED: Poems of Profit $ Loss poetry anthology 2025 (Laura: a haibun) (poem)
BARDS AGAINST HUNGER – KANSAS CITY poetry anthology 2025 (the garden of the body) (poem)
Greater Kansas City Japan Festival (haiku) (a broadside winner of the 2023 haiku prize)
Soul Word Magazine, Vol. III. No 6, Vol. IV, No. 1, 1984 (poem) (Soul Word Magazine Poetry Prize)

My feature albums include:
Resting on the Rock  (original folk)
The Slow Club  (original jazz)
Music for the Weeping Woman  (original folk)
Expressionism  (cover jazz)
Global Yoga  (yoga mindfulness class)
Guided Meditations  (guided meditations)
Winter  (Christmas/holiday, roots/blues/folk/jazz)
The Rainy Day Sessions  (jazz + pop standards)
Standard Procedure  (jazz standards)
Orphan Songs  (eclectic recordings from 25 years in the business)
Angela  (debut 80’s pop/jazz from Teichiku Records, Tokyo)

My current visual art medium is alcohol ink abstracts on yupo.

My proudest achievement is as a kidney donor, which I did in 2008 for a young man who was given a new lease on life.  Me too, for that matter.

I’m happy to be a member of the blogosphere, and am excited to share my own personal glimpses, observations, and musings on art, creativity, wellness, conscious living, and the always irascible and utterly compelling human condition, through essays, poetry, and prose.

The reason I call this blog Bindi Girl Chronicles is explained in my very first post, So, This Bindi Thing …

I can be reached at:  angelacarolebrown@gmail.com.   Or any of the cyber joints I loiter below.

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