
Bryan Vale
Bryan Vale is a writer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He writes fiction and poetry in addition to working as a marketing copywriter. His fiction and poetry have been published in Hidden Peak Press, Star 82 Review, Mind the Gap, and Does It Have Pockets, among other journals. He has been a reader for Five Minutes, and he has been nominated once for Best Microfiction and twice for The Best of the Net.
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Bryan was born in San Francisco and grew up in the East Bay city of Concord. He studied Spanish and Latin American Literature at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, spending one semester in Querétaro, Mexico. After graduating in 2012, Bryan returned to the Bay Area, where he has worked as a writer (after a brief stint as a janitor) ever since.
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Much of Bryan's work is set in beautiful Northern California, often focusing particularly on the contrast between socioeconomic classes in one of the most expensive regions in the world. See some of Bryan's recent publications below!
Recent Publications
"The Fourth Shed." Hidden Peak Press, January 20, 2025.
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"Inside the Vending Machine." Star 82 Review, Issue 12.2, June 2024.
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"The Phone." Y2K Quarterly, Vol. 1 Issue 2, June 2024.