Tracy McArdle Brady is a published novelist, essayist and communications executive from Carlisle, Massachusetts.
She is the 2020 recipient of
She has worked on marketing campaigns for a variety of brands including Volkswagen, Hershey’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Bank of America and Partnership for Drug Free Kids. She also spent several years in New York and L.A. as a movie and television publicist with Turner Broadcasting, Fox Searchlight and Sony Pictures.
Her writing has appeared in
Fortune, Adweek, The Boston Globe Magazine, Muse by Clio and more.
She is a mother of two boys and the author of two “widely unread, critically unacclaimed and financially disastrous novels” (