Brian W Allen

I was born Brian Wayne Allen in Kansas City, Mo. But grew up in the Panama Canal Zone. My father was a Tugboat Master for the Panama Canal. Mom was a secretary at Cristobal High and matriarch of six kids. My first publication was a tongue in cheek sports report in the Star and Herald. The Atlantic Wussies rugby team trounced the Balboa Dogs. I went on to collect a BA and BSN at Washburn University in Topeka. I married my sweet Tucker and didn’t write much more until I mastered spell check. I e-mailed stories of motorcycle misadventures to friends who urged me to publish them. Major magazines such as Easyriders, Biker, V-Twin, and The Horse Backstreet Choppers have printed some 24 of my motorcycle features, road trips, event reviews, humor, and fiction short stories.

After 19 years as a surgical and clinic RN I decided to turn a hobby into a livelihood and went back to Washburn to polish my prose. I wrote for the school paper, the Washburn Review, and wrote a motorcycle column for the Prairie Perennial. I began writing short stories which have been accepted by the literary journals, Inscape, Leaning House Press, and Little Balkans Review. I wrote a memoir, All American Colonial Boy, Coming of age in the Panama Canal Zone, publication pending. Excerpts of it have been printed in the Pan Canal Society’s quarterly, the Canal Review, and Inscape to rousing reviews. I have published selected stories through Kindle, Jungle Joyride and Five Coconuts. There are more short stories of drama, humor, and fantasy to come as well as a novel about an alternative old west.

I live in Topeka, KS with my wife, Tucker. For fun I rebuild and customize old motorcycles and once a year I race for land speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats. I currently hold a 250cc national AMA record.