Brandon Stickney
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Brandon M. Stickney (born in 1967 in Lockport, New York) is an American journalist, author, and documentarian. He was a newspaper reporter at the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal from 1990 to 1995. He is the author of All-American Monster: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh (about Timothy McVeigh)[1][2] and The Amazing Seven Sutherland Sisters: A Biography of America's First Celebrity Models (about the Seven Sutherland Sisters).[3][4] Released in late 2020, Stickney's memoir is The Five People You'll Meet in Prison.[5]
Since his release from prison[6] in 2018, Stickney has volunteered in prison reform advocacy in Florida and in New York.
He attended Daemen College, Niagara County Community College, and graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB).[when?] UB's English program was noted for professors Leslie Fiedler and Robert Creeley, among others.
After five years at the Union-Sun & Journal, Stickney helped ABC News, A&E Biography, and Court TV create documentaries on the Oklahoma City bombing. He also attended Timothy McVeigh's trial in Denver. He later managed marketing and promotions at Prometheus Books. RSA, a subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz Financial, hired him as marketing manager, where he led the communications department. He remained at RSA when it was acquired by Fiserv, a banking services partner.
He continued freelance writing for various publications, including Publishers Weekly and The Buffalo News. After working as a copywriter for Stand Advertising, the Partnership, and J. Fitzgerald Group, he began a Facebook column on addiction and mental illness called "Couchsurfing". The column, along with 20 prison diaries, became The Five People You'll Meet in Prison.
