I am a fiction writer and technical writer living near Seattle. My books include The Remains of River Names and Shoot the Buffalo. The New York Times said of my first book, "Briggs has captured the America that neither progressives nor family-value advocates want to think about, where bohemianism has degenerated into dangerous dropping out." My stories have appeared online and off in journals such as The Chicago Review, First Intensity, 5_Trope, and ZYZZYVA.