Brittany Newell is a writer and performer living in San Francisco. Her debut novel Oola was published in 2017 at the age of 21 in the US, UK, and Germany. Her second novel Soft Core was published by FSG in February 2025 in the US, UK, and France. From 2017-18 she wrote a regular column on gender and sexuality for Dazed Digital. You can find her written work in Granta, N+1, The New York Times, McSweeney’s, Joyland, Parapraxis, and Playgirl, among others. In 2021 she was a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist grant. She is represented by Annie DeWitt and Leslie Shipman at The Shipman Agency and by Gersh for film rights.