Brian Reisinger is a farmer’s son and writer from the hills of Midwestern farm country who lives to tell the hidden stories of rural America. An award-winning author, rural policy expert, speaker, radio contributor, and consultant, Brian grew up working with his dad on the family 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 a national crisis affecting every dinner table with his own family’s four-generation fight for survival.

Brian has given a TEDx talk on risks to our food supply, and has appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio, NewsNation, and other news and podcast programming across the country. He’s also had fiction published in The Milk House literary magazine and elsewhere, and nonfiction 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 more. Land Rich, Cash Poor won “Book of the Year” from the nonpartisan Farm Foundation, was named a C-SPAN Author Series pick, received a Best Book Award for U.S. History and honorable mention for Best New Nonfiction and Cross-Genre Nonfiction, 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 downturns in the Midwest and South, then as 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 develops messaging and strategy for thought leaders and organizations working on bipartisan, nonpartisan, and private-sector issues. He also helps part time on the farm, searching for solutions for family farms and pitching in on the business side and in the farmyard and fields when he can. He lives with his wife and daughter, splitting time between Sacramento, Calif. – America’s farm-to-fork capital, near his wife’s family – and his family’s farm in southern Wisconsin.

Brian spends any spare moment he can find at his cabin in the woods out back of the farm, enjoying the great outdoors and treating his old country music habit.