The Revd Rosalind Brown is Residentiary Canon and Canon Librarian of Durham Cathedral, having previously trained people for ordination in Salisbury. She studied at London University and Yale Divinity School, worked for many years as a town planner before spending some years in the United States, where she was in parish ministry and a member of a Benedictine religious community.

She is the author of a number of hymns and books including: Being a Deacon Today (2005), Being a Priest Today (2002, 2006) written jointly with Christopher Cocksworth, and Can Words Express Our Wonder? Preaching in the church today (2009), all published by Canterbury Press, and Durham Sings! (2009) and Ramsey Remembered: the Durham Years (2010), published by Durham Cathedral.