Brian Beglin was born in Indiana, and before high school, had moved with his family to Arkansas, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, Kansas, Wisconsin, and Colorado. He received his BA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder, then worked in Boulder and Laramie, Wyoming, before getting his MFA in Fiction at Purdue University, where he also taught English composition and creative writing. Along the way, he unloaded trucks on the overnight shift, sold clothes, worked in circulation at a library, and booked travel for IT specialists.

His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Ninth Letter, and Artful Dodge, and his story “Plastination” received a 2009 AWP Intro Journal Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His book reviews and interviews have appeared in The Missouri Review, Sycamore Review, TheRumpus.net, and in the anthology Telling Stories, Talking Craft (Parlor Press).

He lives in Colorado.