She is the author of the best-selling memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me (2019) and the novel Little Monsters (2023), as well as the novel Man Camp (2005).

[4] Her grandfather was the board chairman of Dayton, Price & Co., Ltd., a New York exporting and shipping firm.

[11][12] In 1997, Brodeur founded the fiction magazine, Zoetrope: All-Story, with filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola.

[14] In 2005, Brodeur became an editor at Harcourt HMH Books, where she acquired and edited literary fiction and memoir.

In 2017, Brodeur launched the Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 annual award for an influential work of fiction that illuminates a vital contemporary issue and demonstrates the transformative power of literature on thought and culture.