Brent is a fiction writer, born in Moscow, Idaho and raised outside Pasco, Washington. As an adult he’s bounced around the northwest a bit, straying as far as Missoula, Montana, but eventually found his way back to Pasco, where he lived for 6 years in a little farmhouse with a leaky roof. In 2025 he hopped across the Columbia to West Richland, and now lives with his partner on a small regenerative sheep and poultry farm near the Yakima River.

He is a native son of the Inland Northwest’s rural working class, and spent most of his childhood reading books, tracking baseball statistics, being picked on by his older sister, helping Mom and Dad in the garden, and talking to himself. (He still talks to himself quite a bit) He has a deep affection for the American NorthWest, and his writing and his heart are forever tied to the region.

His writing would be best described as literary fiction, but he tends to borrow from other genres, too, because rules give him the urge to break them. The best way to get a sense of what he does is to read one or two of his short stories. He’d tell you to read one of his novels, but he’s still trying to get one of those published. (He’s written five of them) His writing tends to cover a broad array of topics, including, but certainly not limited to, the rural working class, wilderness and agriculture, mental health, addiction and compulsion, and modern masculinity in rural America.

He has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, an MEd in Sport Management from Washington State University, and served as Fiction Editor for Dress Blues Press for about a year. He’s worked a variety of day jobs, from minor league baseball to nuclear waste immobilization, but he won’t bore you with those details.

The best way to get in touch with him is by carrier pigeon, but you can also send him a message through the Contact page.