About Brooks
Brooks Mendell is the author of books including Loving Trees is Not Enough, Forest Finance Simplified, and Beaverball: A (Winning) Season with the MIT Baseball Team. As CEO at Forisk, he’s published hundreds of blogs and analyses related to forestry. As a fiction writer, he’s published speculative, mystery and science fiction stories.
An inductee in the Georgia Foresters Hall of Fame, Brooks started his forestry career while at MIT as an intern with the State Forester in Massachusetts. Later, he worked at a logging camp in Raymond, Washington, at a sawmill in Barnesville, Georgia, and at a National Park in Northern California.
At MIT, Brooks was co-Captain and co-MVP of the 1993 ECAC Champion Varsity Baseball Team. While he almost failed out of MIT as a freshman, he ultimately graduated with Academic All-American and NCAA Postgraduate Scholar honors. His experiences at MIT provide the basis for his book Beaverball.
At UC Berkeley, Brooks received a full tuition MBA Scholarship. While there, he was named an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor for his work in Communication Skills, won the 20th Haas Speech Competition on Sustainable Business, and was selected by his classmates to deliver the MBA Commencement Address. During this time, Brooks began developing his book Loving Trees is Not Enough.
After earning a PhD in Forest Finance in two and a half years at the University of Georgia, Brooks received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach courses on forest finance and risk management (in Spanish) in Uruguay. In 2004, Brooks Mendell founded Forisk Consulting, an award-winning research firm that studies forest operations and timber markets.
At UC Berkeley, Brooks received a full tuition MBA Scholarship. While there, he was named an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor for his work in Communication Skills, won the 20th Haas Speech Competition on Sustainable Business, and was selected by his classmates to deliver the MBA Commencement Address. During this time, Brooks began developing his book Loving Trees is Not Enough.
After earning a PhD in Forest Finance in two and a half years at the University of Georgia, Brooks received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach courses on forest finance and risk management (in Spanish) in Uruguay. In 2004, Brooks Mendell founded Forisk Consulting, an award-winning research firm that studies forest operations and timber markets.
Published Stories
“Pull-Up Girl,” Spank the Carp (forthcoming)
“Drinking with Grandpa,” The Rye Whiskey Review, September 1, 2024
“Barrel Rollers,” Close to the Bone, April 30, 2024
“Alien Interventions and Paranoias,” Maudlin House, January 10, 2024
“Aliens Making Plans,” Aphelion, Issue 285, July 3, 2023
“Aliens Want Space, Too,” Apple in the Dark, June 20, 2023
“Smell Sweet Dreams,” 101 Words, April 26, 2023
“No Big Thing,” The RavensPerch, February 5, 2023
“Use for the Humans,” 365tomorrows, February 3, 2023
“Birthday Apples,” 365tomorrows, December 1, 2022
“Aliens Have Dads, Too,” Aphelion, Issue 276, September 5, 2022
“Aliens at Rest,” Maudlin House, May 11, 2022
“Family Picture,” Mystery Tribune, April 18, 2022
“Tip Jar,” The RavensPerch, March 31, 2022
“No One Told Me,” The Rye Whiskey Review, March 25, 2022
“Protecting the Bean Farmers,” Aphelion, Issue 269, February 6, 2022
“Aliens and Leftovers,” 365tomorrows, January 13, 2022
“Putt for Show,” Mason Street Blog, November 10, 2021
“Drive the Road,” The RavensPerch, August 10, 2021.
“Know Your Customer,” 101 Words, July 14, 2021.
“Short Books for My Cellmate,” Mystery Tribune, June 30, 2021.
“Grady Shelton,” Flash Fiction Magazine, June 22, 2021.
“Anxiety Afterglow.” Spank the Carp, June 1, 2021 and “2021 SPANK the CARP” Anthology.
“Party Crasher,” 101 Words, December 22, 2020.
“Too Hip to Upgrade,” Mystery Tribune, December 1, 2020.
“Holes in the Fence,” Daily Science Fiction, November 3, 2020.
“Substitutions,” Storgy, October 30, 2020.
“Carried Away Forever,” 365tomorrows, September 5, 2020.
“Business as Usual,” Microfiction Monday Magazine, 98th Edition, August 4, 2020
“Tour De Forest,” Mystery Tribune, April 28, 2020.
“Cedar Balls,” Microfiction Monday Magazine, 89th Edition, November 4, 2019.
“Alien at Home Again,” Daily Science Fiction, August 27, 2019.
“Alien at Home,” Daily Science Fiction, January 22, 2019.
“Day at the Office, Night on the Job,” 365tomorrows, October 28, 2018.
“Water Carrier,” Daily Science Fiction, October 24, 2018.
“Art Imitates Death,” Microfiction Monday Magazine, 64th Edition, October 2, 2017.