brandon r. schrand

AUTHOR, ESSAYIST & ALL THINGS NONFICTION

Photograph by Nick Beymer, 2012

Brandon R. Schrand is the author of Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times (March 2021); Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem & Misbehavior  (2013), and The Enders Hotel: A Memoir, a 2008 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.

His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sports Illustrated, The Dallas Morning News, The Utne Reader, Tin House, Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, The North American Review, BoulevardThe Missouri Review, Columbia, River Teeth, Ecotone, and numerous other publications. He also has essays in several anthologies including Borne on Air: Essays by Idaho Writers (EWU Press); Now Write!: Nonfiction Writing Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin); and The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood (Ecco/Harper Collins). He has won the Willard R. Espy Award, Shenandoah’s Carter Prize, the Pushcart Prize, four Pushcart Prize Special Mentions, and has had seven Notable Essays in the Best American Essays seriesHis nonfiction has also been longlisted for Notting Hill’s Hazlitt Prize, and has earned a Yaddo residency. He is also the Host and Executive Producer of The Snake River Killer Podcast. He lives in Pullman, Washington.     

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