Brian Cochran lives in University City, Missouri, a few miles south of where the Missouri and Mississippi rivers collide. He has received fellowships, residencies, and grants from the Millay Colony for the Arts, Bread Loaf, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. Brian has an M.F.A. from Washington University, and works as a writer at a small engineering firm in St. Louis.