Brooks Hansen (born March 29, 1965) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and illustrator best known for his 1995 book The Chess Garden.

Since 2010, Hansen has lived and worked at the Cate School, where he teaches English and Humanities.

His next work, a young adult novel called Caesar's Antlers, which he also illustrated, was criticized as being too erudite for its target audience, with Mark Oppenheimer in review for The New York Times writing that his prose was "too intricate for most adults to follow, let alone listening children".

[6] (Featuring a sparrow who nests in a reindeer's antlers, and recommended for ages 8–12 by the publisher, it was reviewed as a children's book, although not a read-aloud.

[2] His most recent title The Unknown Woman of the Seine (Delphinium Books) was among the New York Times top selections for historical fiction of 2021.