Brian Reisinger grew up on a family farm in the hills of southern Wisconsin, and lives to tell the hidden stories of rural America. An award-winning author, rural policy expert, speaker, and consultant, Brian worked with his dad on the farm from the time he could walk. His critically acclaimed nonfiction book Land Rich, Cash Poor tells the story of the disappearing American farmer — weaving the forgotten history of an issue affecting every dinner table with his own family’s four-generation fight for survival — and he’s had a range of other nonfiction and fiction published.

Brian has given a TEDx talk on risks to our food supply, and appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” CNN, Fox News, public radio, farm radio, and other news outlets across the political spectrum. He’s been published in USA Today, Newsweek, Yahoo News, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, PBS Wisconsin/Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin Life”, Governing magazine, Game & Fish magazine, The Daily Yonder, RealClearPolitics, The Hill, Saving Country Music, and elsewhere. Land Rich, Cash Poor received “Book of the Year” from the nonpartisan Farm Foundation, was named a C-SPAN Author Series pick, and won a Readers’ Favorite Book Award. His writing has also won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, first place in the Seven Hills Literary Contest, a Solas Award, and more.

After growing up working on the farm, Brian worked as a journalist covering economic upheaval, then a speechwriter and strategist on Capitol Hill and across the country. Today, alongside independent writing and speaking engagements, he serves as Senior Writer at Platform Communications, a Midwestern-based consulting firm that works on bipartisan, nonpartisan, and private-sector issues. Along the way he’s resided in the country, small towns, and cities (mainly those that reflect our country’s rural roots, from the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee to America’s farm-to-fork capital, Sacramento, California). He lives with his wife and daughter, splitting time between Sacramento near his wife’s family, and his family’s farm in southern Wisconsin.

Brian spends any spare moment he can find at his little cabin in the woods out back of the farm, listening to old country music and reading.