Brandon Flesher was born in Shawnee Mission, Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Moline, Illinois. After receiving his paramedic license and working briefly as a paramedic, he moved from the hot and humid Gulf Coast of Alabama to the other extreme of the weather spectrum in Minnesota, where he currently lives with his dog. Brandon wasn't inspired to write poetry until arriving in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but his love of reading began at an early age with stories like King Arthur and His Knight of the Round Table as well as the plays of Shakespeare. He regards Goethe, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard to be among his biggest writing influences.