Brandon Stickney
Brandon M. Stickney (born in 1967 in Lockport, New York) is an American journalist, author, and documentarian. He was a newspaper reporter at the "Lockport Union-Sun & Journal" from 1990 to 1995. He is the author of "All-American Monster: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh" (about Timothy McVeigh) and "The Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters: A Biography of America's First Celebrity Models" (about the Seven Sutherland Sisters). Released in late 2020, Stickney's memoir is "The Five People You'll Meet in Prison". Since his release from prison in 2018, Stickney has volunteered in prison reform advocacy  in Florida and in New York. He attended Daemen College, Niagara County Community College, and graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). UB's English program was noted for professors Leslie Fiedler and Robert Creeley, among others. After five years at the "Union-Sun & Journal", Stickney helped ABC News, A&E Biography, and Court TV create documentaries on the Oklahoma City bombing. He also attended Timothy McVeigh's trial in Denver. He later managed marketing and promotions at Prometheus Books. RSA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Financial, hired him as marketing  manager, where he led the communications department. He remained at RSA when it was acquired by Fiserv, a banking services partner. He continued freelance writing for various publications, including "Publishers Weekly" and "The Buffalo News". After working as a copywriter for Stand Advertising, the Partnership, and J. Fitzgerald Group, he began a Facebook column on addiction and mental illness called "Couchsurfing". The column, along with 20 prison diaries, became "The Five People You'll Meet in Prison".