Brian Bartels was raised in the small town of Reedsburg, Wisconsin. He has been writing fiction, non-fiction and working on plays ever since he discovered how fulfilling it was to sit and wonder about people and stories. His work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Literary Juice, Fiction Writers Review, Pop Matters, and New York stages. Last year he corralled two novellas, They Said Go To Rome, a fictional travel journal, and Very Few Things Will Destroy Me, short stories on adversity. He is currently writing fiction and working on a new novel, July Reindeer. When Brian is not writing he’s working at Fedora in New York’s Greenwich Village. He is no longer friends with sleep.