Brian Kantz, Buffalo, NY-based writer and editor

ABOUT BRIAN KANTZ

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A Buffalo, NY-based writer and editor, Brian has more than a decade of professional writing experience.

His popular column, “The Newbie Dad,” appears in Western New York Family magazine (since 2004), Charlotte Parent magazine (starting January 2008) and the New York Post’s Family Publications group of magazines. It has been heard on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, featured in the Christian Science Monitor, National Catholic Reporter and more than a dozen daily newspapers and parenting magazines nationwide, and posted on the award-winning website fatherville.com. The column details Brian’s adventures and observations as a stay-at-home dad.

For his work on the column, Brian was named one of the nation’s top family magazine humor columnists at the Parenting Publications of America’s 2007 editorial awards competition. The PPA is a trade group representing more than 150 magazines.

In March 2007, Brian self-published a collection of his columns in the book, Stay-at-Home Dad. Stay. Good Boy., from CafePress. Essays from “The Newbie Dad” also appear in Amazing Grace for Fathers (2006) and Amazing Grace for Families (2007), published by Ascension Press. Brian also edited the book, The Battle Over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (University of Kansas Press, 2007), for author Bruce J. Dierenfield. The book received the 2007 Langum Prize in American Legal History.

Brian is a rising young writer with an unmistakable style, combining clarity, warmth and humor. His unique turn-of-phrase and keen observations give his writing a distinctive, engaging voice. Brian’s social commentary — on topics ranging from baseball to presidential politics — has been published in dozens of newspapers from coast to coast.

Brian started his career as an agricultural trade journalist at Meister Publishing Company (now Meister Media Worldwide) in Willoughby, Ohio, and most recently served as director of editorial services and editor of the alumni magazine at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York.

In 1995, Brian graduated from Canisius College of Buffalo, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in English. Under the tutelage of professor, novelist and fellow baseball fan Mick Cochrane [Flesh Wounds (Doubleday), Sport (St. Martin’s Press)], Brian wrote his college senior thesis on Larry Doby and the racial integration of baseball’s American League.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brian now lives in Buffalo, New York, with his wife, Amy, and two young sons, Brendan and Patrick. Life has never been sweeter.


Brian Kantz



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	ABOUT BRIAN KANTZ Please click here for my resumé. A Buffalo, NY-based writer and editor, Brian has more than a decade of professional writing experience. His popular column, “The Newbie Dad,” appears in Western New York Family magazine (since 2004), Charlotte Parent magazine (starting January 2008) and the New York Post’s Family Publications group of magazines. It has been heard on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, featured in the Christian Science Monitor, National Catholic Reporter and more than a dozen daily newspapers and parenting magazines nationwide, and posted on the award-winning website fatherville.com. The column details Brian’s adventures and observations as a stay-at-home dad. For his work on the column, Brian was named one of the nation’s top family magazine humor columnists at the Parenting Publications of America’s 2007 editorial awards competition. The PPA is a trade group representing more than 150 magazines. In March 2007, Brian self-published a collection of his columns in the book, Stay-at-Home Dad. Stay. Good Boy., from CafePress. Essays from “The Newbie Dad” also appear in Amazing Grace for Fathers (2006) and Amazing Grace for Families (2007), published by Ascension Press. Brian also edited the book, The Battle Over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (University of Kansas Press, 2007), for author Bruce J. Dierenfield. The book received the 2007 Langum Prize in American Legal History. Brian is a rising young writer with an unmistakable style, combining clarity, warmth and humor. His unique turn-of-phrase and keen observations give his writing a distinctive, engaging voice. Brian’s social commentary — on topics ranging from baseball to presidential politics — has been published in dozens of newspapers from coast to coast. Brian started his career as an agricultural trade journalist at Meister Publishing Company (now Meister Media Worldwide) in Willoughby, Ohio, and most recently served as director of editorial services and editor of the alumni magazine at Medaille College in Buffalo, New York. In 1995, Brian graduated from Canisius College of Buffalo, New York, with a bachelor’s degree in English. Under the tutelage of professor, novelist and fellow baseball fan Mick Cochrane [Flesh Wounds (Doubleday), Sport (St. Martin’s Press)], Brian wrote his college senior thesis on Larry Doby and the racial integration of baseball’s American League. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brian now lives in Buffalo, New York, with his wife, Amy, and two young sons, Brendan and Patrick. Life has never been sweeter.