Brady Peterson lives near Belton, Texas where for much of the past thirty years he worked building houses or teaching rhetoric and literature at a local university. He once worked a fork lift in a lumber yard in East Austin, tried to teach eighth graders the importance of using language, worked briefly as a technical writer, and helped raise five daughters. He has run one marathon, fought in one karate tournament, climbed one mountain, failed to make the UT baseball team as a walk on, and took tango lessons with his wife. He is the author of Glued to the Earth, Between Stations, Dust, and From an Upstairs Window.
