Brent Lee

Writing Beneath Us  (what started as a tongue-in-cheek “reptilian story”) has been an unexpected challenge, one that’s forced me to find balance between fiction and truth. It began as a joke. A local sinkhole. A few sarcastic updates. Then somewhere along the way, it started taking shape as something deeper, a story about community, survival, and the parts of ourselves that crawl up from the dark when the ground gives way. But I’ll be honest, breaking into fiction has been tougher than I...

I’ve always had a few projects running at once. Some people call it distraction, I call it momentum. Right now, I’m slowly working on several: What We Carry Forward , the continuation of Between the Echoes , which explores what healing looks like after the dust has settled. Beneath Us , which started as a sinkhole story but has evolved into something deeper (and stranger) about survival, community, and humor in chaos. The Values Project , built around an exercise I’ve used with teams and...

There are moments in life when everything seems to be settling into place then, out of nowhere, the ground gives way. Sometimes that’s just a metaphor. In my case, it was literal. A sinkhole opened up next to my house. At first, it was chaos, phone calls, measurements, and trying to wrap my head around what 50 feet wide and 40 feet deep really  means… all while I was supposed to be launching a new book at the Scarecrow Festival. Life has a funny way of testing your sense of timing. Filling a...