Brian S EllisBrian S. Ellis was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and raised in Massachusetts. He first began performing his poems at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge. He is a member of the arts collective the Whitehaus Family Record. He is the author of the chapbok Pharmakos (2006) from Destructible Heart Press and the poetry collections: Uncontrolled Experiments in Freedom (2008) and Yesterday Won't Goodbye (2011) from Write Bloody Books, and American Dust Revisited (2013) and Often Go Awry (2015) from University of Hell Press. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times and, in 2013, he was the recipient of the William Stafford "War No More" Award from Portland Community College. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Read More Read Less