biography 
biography.
Born beneath the weight of winter and raised up under steely summer sun, American Fiction is a mythmaker whose stories and songs are built of the harsh contrasts of Midwestern life. American Fiction started simple: with what he knew and where he was from. On the small stages of hometown coffee shops, he howled his stories - shown and secret, fact and fable - to the people he grew up with. And the people listened. And they kept listening. In 2007, American Fiction's first EP - soulful Devils Casino - was crafted from scratch and recorded in an area church. In a little over a year, ever-prolific American Fiction had released a full-length album. Subtle and intense Lakes got record-label attention and, in 2009, American Fiction signed with Branch Records who re-mastered and re-released Lakes. In 2009, in support of Compassion International's Bite Back anti-malaria efforts, American Fiction produced another passionate EP, African Winters.Since his start among the lakes and looming trees of the Midwest, American Fiction has watched the snow fade to soft green through the windows of Greyhound buses, traveling south to play in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. He still regularly appears in his hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin and other locations across the Midwest. In 2009, he performed alongside a stalwart of Midwestern storytelling, Garrison Keillor, on American Public Media's radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion. On January 1, 2012, American Fiction continues his musical and spiritual saga with an orchestral tribute to Ennio Morricone titled Mesa.*biography by amelia cook
