I always knew I wanted a pen name which was actually a name. Wesley is my middle name, but I’d never gone by it in my life. Bracken was the result of searching through a few random wikipedia pages. I liked it, because the literal definition of bracken spoke to my writing and the kinds of fetishes I like: dark, dingy, overgrown, hard to get out of, likely to swallow you whole if you don’t know your way. And so, Wesley Bracken.