Stories have always been one of the most powerful ways to explore truth.

My writing focuses on the realities people live through every day—hardship, hope, loss, faith, uncertainty, and redemption. I believe fiction can challenge people honestly while still offering moments of light.

Brian Nelson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and while he migrated to the state of Florida when a young teen, he has maintained a very salt-of-the-earth perspective, a mid- westerner’s perspective, valuing older ideals of faith, and decency, and a love of irony.

He has maintained these touchstones of conviction, and they play a significant part in his writing, also in the roles of his characters. And, while leaning heavily into humor, the accompanying messages of truth and goodness prevail and present his overarching worldview.

Married forty years to his “one and only,” Vincenza, they share two children and one grandboy.