D BrandtDouglas R. Brandt, Ph.D., is a poet and former scientist, manager, and consultant whose lifelong curiosity was sparked in a Kansas basement lab of his own making. That drive carried him to a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Kansas State University and decaes researching and managing all types of projects--holding two patents and multiple scientific publications--until retirement in 2022 gave poetry the space it had long deserved.



Early poems did appear alongside the lab work, slipped into his high school's Non Pareil (1973) and a Christian youth magazine soon after, but poetry only fully claimed him later. His writing now marries formal craft (villanelles, quatrains, looping refrains) with a scientist's precision and a believer's honest grappling with suffering, hope, and redemption. The Redemptions Rhythms Trilogy--Redemptions, Deliverance, and Redemptions Refrain--traces that pattern across breadth, depth, and daily reach.



He lives in Lafayette, Indiana, with his wife Cheryl. Their four children, spouses, and four grandchildren are scattered from nearby to afar. He still runs barefoot and refuses easy answers. Read More Read Less