Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction. He received an O. Henry Award for his story “Two Brothers”, which the screenplay “Prophets and Brothers” has been adapted from. He has twice received O. Henry honorable mentions and he has also received an NEA Fellowship.

“Two Brothers” has just been re-published in, “The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories” which, The American Library Association described as “…a respectable sampling of some of today’s finest writers.”

“There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson.”

-George Saunders, author

“There is a talent here, oozing without remorse from the subconscious of the author…”

-Los Angeles Times

“Evenson shows promise of becoming one of the most exciting new voices to come out of the Northwest…”

-The Sunday Oregonian

“Like Kafka, Evenson casts a deadpan glance at a world of injustice, a world that seems even more bizarre and unnerving for the simple reason it seems so normal.”

-The Desert News

“Through the sparse economy of the plot and settings, Evenson’s great moral sensibility is glimpsed behind the carnival mask of apparently frivolous murder.”

-Seattle Weekly

“Brian Evenson has been compared to Poe, to Kafka, to other great writers whose vision was bleak and dark, and whose characters act out of appalling despair. Evenson is worth such comparison, but his work is different from these. His worlds are without any emotion at all. Neither cruelty nor pity, happiness nor misery, compassion nor suffering, hope nor despair exist in his tales of inexorable and inhuman logic. They are written too in a faultlessly efficient prose, so that we see these strange worlds in the clearest and coldest of lights. And, paradoxically, we become aware of life without a purpose, of laws without sense, of victims who do not know they are victimized and aggressors who act without aim or malice. Evenson is a moralist, telling us that our very humanity is at risk, and that we must defend it.”

-Leslie Norris, author