Brian McMillan earned his MFA in creative nonfiction from Northern Michigan University. He is the author of a poetry chapbook called Winter Walking Home (2010), and his fiction and poetry have appeared in several literary magazines, including New Orleans Review. He is the editor of two weekly newspapers in Florida, where he lives with his wife and their five children. He was the Local Media Association's national Journalist of the Year in 2012 and has won many awards from the Florida Press Association.