Brandon O’Brien is a performance poet, speculative fiction writer, and roleplaying game designer. He is also a teaching artist, and the poetry editor of FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction.O'Brien's has appeared in in Uncanny Magazine, Arsenika, Strange Horizons, Reckoning, Sunvault, and New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean, among others. His stories have been shortlisted for the 2014 Alice Yard Prize for Art Writing and the 2014 and 2015 Small Axe Literary Competitions.