Brian McMillan received his Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from Northern Michigan University. He is the Local Media Association’s 2012 Journalist of the Year for weekly publications in North America and has won numerous awards for his column writing, including the 2014 award for best humor column among weekly newspapers by the Florida Press Association. His poetry chapbook, Winter Walking Home, was published in 2010 by March Street Press. His fiction, poetry and nonfiction have been published in the New Orleans Review and other little magazines.