Brad Bryant

Brad Bryant, born in 1948 in Tacoma, Washington, attended Yale College where he majored in Southeast Asia Studies and graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a Master’s degree from the University of Virginia. For the past 10 years, he has been Executive Director of a nationally recognized child mental health agency, People Places Inc., and is well known in the field of therapeutic foster care and special needs adoption. Brad has published a number of technical works in child welfare, the most widely disseminated of which is a multimedia curriculum for new caregivers: Parenting Skills Training – Teaching and Learning with Children in Care. Most relevant to Indra's Net, he spent 6 years in Thailand during the Vietnam War era working with children left behind by American soldiers. Brad is fluent in Thai, passable in Lao and has a bit of Chinese as well as French, German and Spanish. He is fascinated by who we are and how we have come to be - questions that underlie the action of Indra’s Net, his first novel.