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Brian W. Robinson writes wait-what? stories for readers who love the a-ha click of recognizing themselves in unexpected places.

He received a master’s degree in playwriting from Yale School of Drama and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from UC Davis. He grew up in California on a vineyard in the Salinas Valley, and he’s worked as a Peace Corps Volunteer, caterer, computer programmer, news consultant, and keyboard tester. He spent more than twenty years leading analytics teams at Silicon Valley companies, including Meta and Yahoo. He lives in San Francisco.