BRANDON NADEAU

Brandon grew up in the forested foothills of Northern BC. He snowboarded, played guitar in a metal band, and got bad grades in school. He joined the army at nineteen, served for seven years, and was deployed to Afghanistan twice. 

 

Brandon became a bookworm in Kandahar to escape the traumas of combat. After the army, he earned a business degree from MacEwan University. He filled his electives with English and creative writing courses and developed a passion for writing.

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Brandon's stories have appeared in The Antigonish Review, The Galway Review, Shift, and others.​ His work in progress, Contact in Continuum, is a collection of connected short stories about life in the Canadian Army, the Afghanistan War, and the human cost of armed conflict.

 

The collection includes "Death on Rotation," which first appeared in NōD Magazine, and won the Gloria Sawai Award for Creative Writing in 2023. The story was later republished by Literally Stories and is now available to read on their website.

 

Brandon is the founder and Executive Editor of MoonLit Getaway. He lives in Edmonton with his wife and son.