Brennen Wysong’s short stories have appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, The Georgia Review, and The Massachusetts Review. He’s also published poems in more than a dozen print and online magazines, such as Denver Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Quarter After Eight, and Stand (U.K.). He’s received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Fiction, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.

Brennen graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received his MFA in fiction from Cornell University. He’s taught at Cornell and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Over the last three decades, when not writing, Brennen has run on trails across the United States. He’s completed 100-mile races in Virginia, Utah, Washington state, Colorado, and even New York City. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Debra, and his son, Calder.

His novel Relic Light is slated for publication from Transit Lounge in Australia in 2025.