Brandon Stosuy is the cofounder and editor in chief of The Creative Independent. He previously worked as director of Editorial Operations at the music publication, Pitchfork, and was senior editor at Stereogum. Brandon curates the annual Basilica SoundScape festival in Hudson, New York with Melissa auf Der Maur and has been a music curator at MoMA PS1 in New York City and the Broad museum in Los Angeles. For the past 15 years, he and the visual artist Matthew Barney have collaborated on a series of live events, objects, and print publications related to their Long Island City performance space, REMAINS. His anthology, Up is Up, But So Is Down: New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992 was published by NYU Press in 2006, and was a 2006 Village Voice book of the year. Brandon is the author of three books on creativity, Make Time for Creativity, Stay Inspired, How to Fail Successfully (all published by Abrams) and two children’s books, Music Is... and We Are Music (both published by Simon & Schuster). His most recent book is the anthology, Sad Happens: A Celebration Of Tears, also out on Simon & Schuster. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.