Brian Trent lives in New England, where he works as a novelist, screenwriter, producer, poet, actor, and freethinker who supports both imagination and rationalism. He is an advocate for film and the written word and possibility.
Brian is a recent (2013) winner in the Writers of the Future contest and has since had work accepted in Escape Pod (“The Nightmare Lights of Mars”), Daily Science Fiction, Apex (winning the 2013 Story of the Year Reader’s Poll), Clarkesworld, COSMOS, Strange Horizons, Galaxy’s Edge, Penumbra, and Electric Velocipede. The author of the historical fantasy series RAHOTEP, he is also a 2015 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award finalist and Writers of the Future winner.
Work on Escape Artists[]
Escape Pod
- EP415 The Nightmare Lights of Mars, read by Veronica Giguere
- EP466 Checkmate, read by Mat Weller
- EP478 People of the Shell, read by Jeff Ronner
- EP533 2016 Flash Fiction Contest Winners: Disc Stutter, read by Adam Pracht
- EP576 Karma Among the Cloud Kings, read by Ellora Sen-Gupta
- EP614 Sparg, read by Alasdair Stuart
Pseudopod
- PP537 A World of Bones, read by Setsu Uzume