Brandon Spars lived and traveled in Indonesia and the Pacific Islands for six years before earning a Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California/Berkeley. Since then, he has taught high school and college for more than twenty years.
The classroom has always been Brandon’s storytelling lab, where loud booms, bellows, whoops, and thumps are frequently heard. Two years ago, he took his stories outside the classroom to compete in events like the Moth StorySLAM. He won the Moth GrandSLAM in San Francisco in April 2016 with his story “Leaps,” included in this volume. Brandon lives with his wife and two children in Santa Rosa, California.
