About the Author
The author and Emily the Wonder Cat
Brian Biswas has been published in the United States as well as internationally. He has published several dozen short stories over the past decade. His short story "A Betrayal" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2000. Novel excerpt "The Last Photon" was selected "Web Short of the Day" by fictiondaily.org on March 8, 2011. He is listed in the International Writers and Authors Who's Who, Marquis Who's Who, and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Currently, he lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife, daughter, and two cats.
Brian was born in Columbus, Ohio. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
In 1989, he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his wife Elizabeth and their son Mark. Their daughter, Eliza, was born several years later. Mark is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California-Riverside. Eliza is a sophomore at North Carolina State University. They live in an old neighborhood in Chapel Hill with their cats Ike and Casey.