About Brandon:

There’s an old Monty Python skit about a man, or a woman, who Transgressed the Unwritten Code, by simply putting words down on paper. My life of literary crime began about the age of eight. Hiding in the basement, I turned my chair towards the darkest corner and wrote down a song I could hear in my head. When I’d finished, immediately felt two things. The first was exhilaration; I’d not only hooked the melody, but the words as well; I’d reeled them in. The second was a wave of separation so immense, I ran up the stairs and out of the house, to bury what I’d created in the backyard sandbox.

Separation from what? From the tribe. The loneliness was immense. But the feeling of power, of being a creator, was equally so. These two threads have determined my existence since. I became a doctor to serve the tribe, but also to be able to separate from it, to get my words—and songs—down on tape, and paper. Service to both has required a definite degree of chameleonization, but even that has been, in its way, yet another form of creation.

Dr. Brandon Ayre has been an Emergency Medicine doctor in and around the Northeastern US—and British Columbia—for over 30 years. He has had multiple stories and humorous articles published in numerous literary journals, as well as The Medical Post. Before going to Med school, he made his living as a singer-songwriter. He's studied writing at The Vermont Studio Center, The New School, and The New York State Writers’ Institute. He has two children.