Joseph Brisben has been writing fiction for more than four decades, mostly short studies. He has wanted to be an author since he was in the third grade in Adams Grade School in his hometown, Enid, Oklahoma. He studied English and American literature first at the University of Chicago and then at Drake University. In recent years, he has studied during the Summer Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Most of his stories take place in Enid and his mother’s hometown, Pond Creek, OK. Now retired, Brisben worked as a reporter and copyreader for the Chicago Tribune, in college public relations, and as an investment counselor. He also plays jazz, folk, and blues guitar and a number of other instruments. He has four children and four grandchildren and lives in Iowa City, IA.