Brett Leveridge was born at the Route 66 Lanes bowling alley in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, between the 7th and 8th frames of his mother's third perfect game in a four day stretch. He saw very little of his father, a traveling Druid evangelist, during his childhood; as a result, he grew up rough and he grew up wild and when he was only fifteen, he shot a man in El Reno, Oklahoma, just to watch him die.

Barely evading the heat, the fuzz, the coppers, Johnny Law, the gendarmes, he hotfooted it to New York City. It was in a Bowery mission, while awaiting a bowl of potato soup and, if he was lucky, some banana pudding, that he received his calling. He had a vision of a 70-foot tall zine and on the masthead of that zine, it read, "BRETTnews."

First published in the summer of 1991, Leveridge's journal of "pithy fluff" has garnered quite a following in the U.S. and around the world. The print edition is available by subscription and read avidly by folks from coast to coast.

Since premiering on the World Wide Web in October of 1994, BRETTnews has gone on to accrue honors and glowing notices across the Web and in the national press. A few weeks after going public, BRETTnews was selected Cool Site of the Day, by the man behind that very popular site, Glenn Davis. BRETTnews was recently named one of the Top 100 sites on the Web by Web100.com. Leveridge was profiled in the cover story of the spring issue of Virtual City, penned by Jesse Kornbluth, and that publication named BRETTnews a CyberStar '96 award winner as the Top Web Zine of 1996. In November of '94, Leveridge was selected as Time Inc.'s inaugural Vibe Magazine Web Artist-in-Residence.

The mainstream press has taken note of BRETTnews also. Publications such as New York, .net, Long Island Newsday, New York Daily News, Virtual City, NetGuide, The Boston Globe, Time Out New York, New York Press, The Joe Bob Briggs Report, The Web magazine and Psychotronic magazine have praised BRETTnews in both its print and Web incarnations.

Leveridge's work has also been featured in such publications as Virtual City, Time Out New York and Might, where the popular BRETTnews feature, Men My Mother Dated, is a regularly featured column.

Leveridge recently was a featured guest on NPR's This American Life, reading six installments of the aforementioned Men My Mother Dated.

Leveridge lives in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, where he spends most of his time alone with his memories.