Brian Reisinger

Brian Reisinger grew up on a family farm and lives to tell the hidden stories of rural America. An award-winning writer, Brian worked with his dad from the time he could walk before going into journalism and public policy.

Brian is a rural columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA Today Network, and has also been published in USA Today, Newsweek, Yahoo News, PBS Wisconsin/Wisconsin Public Radio’s Wisconsin Life, Game & Fish magazine, The Daily Yonder, RealClearPolitics, The Hill, The Wisconsin State Journal, The Cap Times, Saving Country Music, and elsewhere. He has won awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, first place in the Seven Hills Literary Contest, a Solas Award, and more.

He worked as a journalist, then a speechwriter and strategist on Capitol Hill and across the U.S., before becoming a columnist and consultant. Brian lives with his wife and daughter, splitting time between northern California near his wife’s family, and his family’s farm in Wisconsin.