India Hill Brown

India Hill Brown writes middle-grade fiction that uses supernatural suspense to open conversations about overlooked Black history. The Girl in the Lake, published by Scholastic Press, follows a family visit shaped by a child's fear of water and by earlier generations' unequal access to public swimming facilities. Scholastic calls the book a historically inspired ghost story for readers aged eight to twelve. Brown's earlier The Forgotten Girl connects its supernatural plot to the history of a segregated cemetery, establishing a pattern of young characters encountering histories their communities have not fully discussed. Before publishing books, Brown wrote for Teen Vogue, Essence, Sesi, and The Everygirl. Her fiction balances page-turning tension with family memory and cultural context, allowing the past to emerge through setting, conversation, and a child's effort to interpret gaps in what earlier generations have shared.