The daughter of Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust, freelance writer Corinne Joy Brown of Denver is the author of four books and a staff writer for four magazines. She is editor of HaLapid, the journal of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies.

She holds degrees from Boston University and the Interior Design Institute in Art Education and Interior Design. A member of Western Writers of America and a former president of the Denver Woman’s Press Club, she has been working for over a decade on a history of the modern-day world of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico and their hidden past.

A frequent visitor to New Mexico, her writing research has taken her to Portugal and beyond. She believes the Crypto-Jewish experience holds meaning for members of any faith.