Brian R Pellar

Brian R. Pellar is the author of the non-fiction book Moby-Dick and Melville's Anti-Slavery Allegory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). He has also published seven papers on the Origins of the Alphabet in the academic journal Sino-Platonic Papers (SPP 196, SPP 219, SPP 246, SPP 263, SPP 296, SPP 328, and SPP 341). He is also an artist and has a life size figurative bronze sculpture, Form No. 2, permanently installed in the Chancellor's Rose Garden at UC Irvine. He also designed UC Irvine’s anteater-head ceremonial graduation mace. After serving four years in the US Navy -- with two years aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41) in Japan -- he attended UC Irvine as an undergraduate and as a graduate student in their MFA program in fiction (an early sample draft of The Siren Sea was instrumental in the author getting accepted into UC Irvine in 1994, as well as into the Iowa Writers' Workshop). He currently resides in California and is working on several writing and art projects.