Brian is a fiction writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn. His assemblages are often situated in collaged wooden boxes, in which blocks of clear resin--containing preserved biological specimens, glass vials, antique texts, cloth, and other items--are mounted. These box constructions involve images and themes which also occur in his stories. He is interested in the Wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities as a genre with both plastic and literary possibilities.

Brian's short stories have appeared in AGNI Online, The Antioch Review, Conjunctions, Epoch, The L Magazine Online, Literal Latté, New England Review, One Story, Oyster Boy Review, Post Road, Shenandoah, Tin House, and TriQuarterly. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times, and his collection The Sleeping Sickness was a finalist in the 2005 Iowa Short Fiction Awards. He has been awarded residencies at Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks and Hall Farm Center in Vermont. He holds a Ph.D. in English & American Literature from New York University, with a dissertation on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Brian taught courses in the English and Expository Writing programs.

Brian is the Grace Paley Writing Fellow for 2009-2010 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachussetts. His public reading is on March 13th, 2010.

Watch Brian read from his story Gumbo Limbo at the studios of Provincetown Community Television on January 21st, 2010.

Brian's artwork has been featured in Mono Magazine and is available for sale at his Etsy shop.