Brandon Allen was the kid who read the dictionary at the dinner table for fun. He lives in Kansas City with his family and two needy cats, where he is a student in the Master of Fine Arts – Creative Writing program at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.

His short fiction is forthcoming in Pleiades. He is at work on a novel set on the Arizona/Mexico border involving the missing son of a dentist and a runaway mother. Find out more at his author pages on Facebook and Instagram.