Brent Spencer

Writer and actor Brent Spencer has played roles in several films, including Lucky, Bush Pigs, Cannibal Girls, and Flyover Country. He has also appeared in two Prilosec commercials and frequently appears on community theater stages in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the author, most recently, of Rattlesnake Daddy, a memoir that won the 2011 Nebraska Book Award. His other books include the novel The Lost Son and the story collection Are We Not Men?, both from Arcade Publishing. With his wife, novelist and short story writer Jonis Agee, he writes screenplays, one of which was produced by Roger Corman's New Horizons Picture Corporation. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Creighton University. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and holds a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA.