Brian Malloy is the author of novels The Year of Ice, Brendan Wolf, After Francesco, and the young adult novel Twelve Long Months. His novels have been a 2002 New York Times New and Notable title, an Oprah Daily pick for best of 2022, a 2021 Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads selection, and a 2009 Book Sense Pick. His nonfiction has appeared in Minnesota Monthly, OUT, and the Lambda Award winning anthology, The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers (Marlow & Co.). His witness memoir, AIDS in Minnesota: A Personal History, will be published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2028.