Brett Aronowitz considers herself a daughter of the Beat Generation. Born the same year The Dharma Bums was published, she boasts of spending her tenth summer vacation on Allen Ginsberg’s farm in Cherry Valley, New York.

As a child, Brett tagged along in the shadows of her father, renowned pop music journalist Al Aronowitz, while he befriended and subsequently wrote about the music and literary icons of the sixties.  Her childhood was a mixture of excitement and dysfunction with regular visits from George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis (to name just a few), interspersed with frequent trips to the hospital where her mother was fighting metastatic breast cancer. 

Brett graduated from Western States Chiropractic College in 1983, and spent the next twenty-years paying off her student loans by working in the entertainment industry.  “Education is a wonderful thing,” she quips. “It’s like storing a brand new Mercedes in the garage; it only hurts when you make the payments.”

Once freed from the financial burden of her education, Brett embraced her lineage as a writer by studying with bestselling author, Natalie Goldberg.  Brett has written for a variety of regional magazines and journals and won an honorable mention in the 72nd annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition for her memoir entitled, “The Night I was Brian Jones.” 

She now camps in Southern California, cooking for her highly-gifted teenager, cycling long miles with her family, and of course… chipping away at her memoir.

She has recently added graphic art and photography to her array of tools with which she interprets our vast and complex world and hopes you will honor the copyright on all her materials.