Brandon Helms

Brandon Helms is from Pittsburgh, where he grew up with his mother, father, and two brothers. He later moved to Chicago, where he went to law school and practiced as a lawyer. In 2014, he moved to Detroit and became an Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting fraud and other white-collar crimes. Though he's written countless legal documents, he found this work to be somewhat constraining; fiction has allowed him to get in touch with his creative side. He, his wife, and their two children currently live in a suburb of Detroit. Not Today, Fred is his first novel. Before it was published, Brandon modified two chapters into a short story and won the 2020 Grosse Pointe Library short story contest. https://www.grossepointenews.com/articles/short-story-contest-winners-selected/