Bryan Parys is the author of the memoir, Wake, Sleeper, which was released in the fall of 2015. His work has appeared in Ruminate Magazine (as a finalist for the 2012 VanderMey Nonfiction Prize), The Good Men Project, and Sojourner’s, among others, and he has been a grant recipient of the Beverly Cultural Council. Bryan received his MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire and has taught creative writing classes since 2007. He commutes from Beverly to Berklee College of Music for his day job as a writer/editor, and the train journeys are solely responsible for keeping his writing habits from flatlining.