Brandon Ayre writes fiction. He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. After his first year of college he left McGill and moved to London, England to pursue a career as a singer-songwriter. During this period, he befriended Leonard Cohen; they remained friends until Cohen’s death. After four years in both London and Greece, he returned to McGill to complete his undergraduate degree. He was subsequently admitted to McGill Medical School from which he graduated in 1980. He did his internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village, at the start of the AIDS epidemic. He has worked in Emergency Rooms throughout the Northeastern United States, as well as British Columbia, Canada. He has two children.
Brandon has studied writing at The Vermont Studio Center, The New School, and The New York State Writers’ Institute at The University of Albany.
He has also had stories published in Fjords, Cartagena Journal, Black Heart Magazine, The Medical Post, and The Northshire Press. In 2020, he won first prize at the University of Albany for a short story on the first documented COVID death in Vermont.
Brandon is also a singer/songwriter You can follow his work on SoundCloud.