Brad Bisio grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. After studying Aerospace Engineering at Syracuse University, he graduated with a BA in English Literature from Humboldt State University. He was a performing musician while living in San Francisco and Colorado and has published poetry and/or fiction in The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Harpur Palate, Barrow Street, Word Riot, Boston Literary Magazine, Penumbra, Spot Literary Magazine and Six Sentences among others. He won the Advisor’s Award for the story Still No One, but Returning Different published in Toyon and was nominated for the 2011 and 2012 Pushcart Prize Anthology.