Brian Benson is the author of Going Somewhere, and co-author, with Richard Brown, of This Is Not for You. His short nonfiction has been published in Hunger Mountain, Sweet, Hippocampus, Oregon Humanities, Short Reads, and Blood Tree Literature, among other publications, and his work has been featured in several anthologies.

Brian grew up in northern Wisconsin, just across the road from a lake shaped like a heart and just outside a town with three bars and no stoplights. Much of his youth was spent biking back roads and variously injuring himself in the woods and water. He went to college at UW-Madison, where he pursued two lib-arts degrees and took zero creative writing classes, and after a few years of bouncing around the Americas on bus and bike, he landed in Portland, Oregon, where he now lives with his partner and a dog that looks like something Jim Henson made on an off day.

Brian teaches creative nonfiction at the Attic Institute and out of his home, facilitates free Write Around Portland workshops, and works with teens as a Writer in the Schools. He is currently at work on his third book, a memoir-in-essays focused on questions around masculinity.