Bryan MacWilliams was born December 20th, 1985 in the small village of Watertown located in up state New York. Born to his parents Glen and Denise MacWilliams, with a brother three years older named Andrew. Shortly After his birth he moved to his hometown of New Milford, Connecticut, where he remains to this day.
His literary endeavors started early, involving mostly school assignments like essays or stories. His independent creative metamorphosis happened late in his career. While in seventh grade, his parents got divorced and the rush of emotions, hormones, and stresses on his young forming mind made him delve deeper into his own feelings. He became more outgoing and energetic, for a time, which masked his internal pains and conflicts. While alone by himself he wrote poetry that expressed the way in which he felt.
As he grew into his highschool years he strove for personal greatness in every field, high school brought many opportunities for this weather becoming a great intellect, powerful athlete, commanding leader, or social juggernaut. He aspired to become all of these things, and many different people, but never himself. The only real part of him was his poetry which no one knew about, therefore no one knew the real Bryan MacWilliams.
By his sophomore year he began to see that becoming a success at everything was impossible, he then threw all his energy into the one thing he was better than average at running. Running brought many new feelings ambition, devotion, success, failure, heartbreak, all of these were reflected in his creative works throughout this period. His junior year he lost thirty pounds and began to grow as a more popular individual, with average looks, success, and intelligence. The feelings of belonging flooded upon him, but were stopped by the knowledge that great person he knew he was before, came now in a better looking package. So were people interested in what was inside or the package itself, this self-conflict also carried over into his creative works. Senior year brought more popularity and more success, which forced Bryan to become less social and more reclusive; this brought more feelings and more poetry.
Literature became a big part of Bryan’s life, when he started writing poetry he never told anybody about it, it was his escape from the world around him. Now, because of his generosity and courage we have compiled the collective works of Bryan MacWilliams into this publication.
Katrina Pokrifka says, “Bryan’s brilliance and continuos work ethic, leaves others striving to follow in his footsteps”
Dan Brooks says, “Bryan’s quick wit is only matched by his even quicker feet.”
