Cesmat, Brandon

Brandon Cesmat teaches literature & writing at several colleges in Southern California. His first book, Driven into the Shade, received a San Diego Book Award. His short story collection When Pigs Fall in Love & Other Stories is from Caernarvon Press. He is an active teaching artist in California Poets in the Schools (CPITS) and an active member in Teaching Artists Organize (TAO). Cesmat harvests brush every summer with his wife and their three sons at their home just above Paradise Creek in Valley Center, California.