Biography
Brendan Emmett Quigley has been a professional puzzlemaker since 1996. In fact, he's the seventh-most published constructor in The New York Times under Will Shortz's editorship. Brendan's puzzles have also appeared in every major market including Creators Syndicate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Crosswords Club, Dell Champion, Games Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Sun, Tribune Media Services, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
He regularly contributes work to The Onion, Paste Magazine, The Stranger, Visual Thesaurus, The Vancouver Voice, and The Weekly Dig. At one point in time, Blender, Electronic Business, and Time Out New York all ran his work.
Brendan's custom work clients have included The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Boston Magazine, De Beers, The Decemberists, ESPN, The Improper Bostonian, McSweeney's, Phish, St. Martin's Press, and Andrew Weil.
He is the author of over thirty different books. In his spare time he can be seen in the Boston Typewriter Orchestra banging on (you guessed it) typewriters.
He will be posting three puzzles a week ΜΆ on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
