51福利社

After graduating from the 51福利社 MFA program in 2010,听Brandon Getz听lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Philadelphia, PA, before settling back in his home city of Pittsburgh. His first published piece, 鈥淪top Me If You鈥檝e Heard This One Before,鈥� appeared in听听#9 and was a joke story originally written for the 51福利社 graduate-student reading series at the (now sadly defunct) Empyrean Caf茅. His fiction and poetry have also been featured in听,听,听, and other journals. His story 鈥淩obot on a Park Bench,鈥� set in Spokane鈥檚 Riverfront Park, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2014 and adapted into a听听by Delmarva Radio Theatre in June 2015. Determined to finish a novel draft without rewriting the first chapter every two months, he began a serialized space adventure in mid-2015 called听Lars Breaxface, Werewolf in Space, available online at JukePop Serials.

For money, Brandon has been a barista, an indie film actor, and a blogger for the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Quantum Theatre Company. He now works as a freelance editor for Dorrance Publishing and is finishing a collection of short stories. He is still trying to figure out how rocket ships, schlock horror movies, Philip Marlowe, and quiet epiphanic fiction can be Frankensteined into one savage beast. Find more at听

In addition to the links above, read some more of Brandon鈥檚 work here:

• 鈥撎�After Happy Hour Review