Rande Gail Brown is an American writer and translator.
She was formerly the Executive Director of the Tricycle Foundation, publisher of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, America's leading Buddhist magazine. She is also president of East West Communications, a company that facilitates cultural understanding between Japan and the United States. Brown is a well-known translator of Japanese spiritual and cultural texts. She most recently co-authored and ghostwrote the New York Times bestseller Geisha, A Life with Mineko Iwasaki (Atria, 2002). Brown serves on the Board of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, under whose auspices she has been a Volunteer Chaplain at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. She is currently pursuing a Master of Social Work degree at New York University and plans to become a psychotherapist.