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Sure thing, hello! Taanshi! My name is Brennan Kenneth Brown, I'm a Queer Red River Métis writer and web developer. I'm 30-years-old and I've been writing and chronically online for over fifteen years now. I love writing about a wide variety of topics, and using my software development skills to make open-source projects that I hope will benefit others.

During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, I realized I wanted to go full-thrust and try to follow my dreams. I enrolled in university as a mature student and majored in English Honours. I founded and ran a creative writing collective called Write Club during my undergrad, and we released two anthologies under my tenure.

I've loved blogging since my elementary teacher, Mr. Rehak, taught our class about Google's Blogger when I was only ten-years-old. While I started sharing my poetry online in junior high, it took until I was 19-years-old and finished high school to feel confident enough to start blogging.

I wrote my first blog post on Medium in 2015. I would post on the platform a couple times every month for several years, often during my lunch break when I was working as a cook at a children's hospice and a on-call custodian. I only ever got a few dozens views on each blog post, but I deeply enjoyed writing for the sake of writing.

I went on a blogging hiatus while getting my degree, because I was so busy with schoolwork—I took full-time fall, winter, spring and summer semesters for all four-years straight. I graduated with a 3.8 GPA and a peer-reviewed academic article, yipee!

My writing skills improved greatly (at least, I hope), and I minored in creative writing specializing in creative nonfiction—I realized this was the genre I loved the most—taking the mechanics and rich sensory imagery of fiction and applying it to real life and true stories.



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