Brian Douglas MacLeod is a singer/songwriter who has decided to focus on writing novels that tell truths about life in unique ways. He has just completed his first novel, The Black Wall: River to the Wasteland. 

He was born in Rome, New York, and loved hiking in the woods and playing along creeks that formed the headwaters of the Mohawk River. He would lay in the grass and watch the clouds and make them characters in stories he told his friends.

He did his undergraduate work at SMU and graduated summa cum laude in 1979 with a double major in English and Economics.  He received the Wallace F. Lovejoy award for Economics.  He was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and worked as a high school English teacher in Houston right after college. 

After teaching one year he moved to Dallas. He held all sorts of jobs -- from submarine sandwich maker to repo man. These jobs exposed him to many sides of life and a diversity of cultures. He then went to law school at the University of Texas in Austin. He worked as a briefing attorney for the Dallas Court of Appeals, made a short foray into private practice, and continued working as an attorney for several state agencies. He then took a two-year hiatus from legal work and joined the Texas Disaster Assistance Program. He traveled through much of Texas bringing aid to flood victims. He then returned to the practice of law and ended his legal career with eleven years at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

He has played hundreds of gigs in his signature Americana Jazz style with his band “Brian MacLeod’s HiFi” and has lots of fun leading the band with cover tunes and songs he writes. Now his focus is on producing novels to entertain and uplift readers.