Gaye Brown's work has appeared in the Washington Review, Georgetown Review, Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Months to Years, Lowestoft Chronicle, and Adoptive Families magazine, among other periodicals. She received a Travel Writing Award, with publication in The Best Travel Writing 2010 (Solas House), and was a finalist for a Maine Literary Award in short non-fiction in 2023, 2020, and 2016. Formerly, she directed the publishing programs of the Smithsonian Institution’s American Indian and American Art museums, and later was a writer-researcher for Time-Life Books.