Brian is an award-winning author, prose writer, poet, and screenwriter.

Raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, he now makes his home amongst the salt breezes and open spaces of California's Central Coast, where he somehow finds the time to write between soaking up the rays and eating his weight in homegrown avocados. A lifelong battle with muscular dystrophy has informed the majority of his work, which is written with the aid of voice recognition and eye gaze technology out of physical necessity.

His prose collection, Handicapsules: Short Stories of Speculative Crip Lit, has been taught at UMass Amherst. His Young Adult novel, All the Idle Weeds That Grow, has been lauded by disability advocates as "rollicking, subversive, hilarious, and brilliant." His poetry chapbook, To Be, Conjugated, has been praised by DeafBlind poet John Lee Clark as "wicked" and "sharp as a razor's edge." His 30-minute TV comedy pilot, Crips, is a Screencraft and WeScreenplay winner, a bronze medalist at the Titan Awards, winner of the Yes, And… Laughter Lab competitive incubator, and has led to fellowships at RespectAbility (now Disability Belongs) and 1IN4.

But mostly he just likes to find the humor in the darkness and write about it to entertain himself.