dave brandt • author

From Colorado, I am the youngest of six. I have also lived in California, Michigan, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia—which is home now. There was always interesting music around the house, and I was encouraged to spend time reading. As a kid, I would listen to music and read along with the lyrics, study them. I actually enjoyed diagraming sentences and I always preferred essay questions. At VCU in Richmond, I majored in English. In the nineties, I became involved in zine culture. I cut my teeth as a writer with my publication, 'The Crisp Fabric.' I have formed meaningful friendships with writers and artists I have never met. My favorite novelists are Kurt Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, Italo Calvino, and Franz Kafka. The nonfiction writers I like are Buckminster Fuller, Hunter S. Thompson, and Frank Zappa. Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson are my favorite poets.