The Author

Brian A. Dixon has written everything from plays to podcasts, but he is best known for his short fiction. His first published story, "The McMillen Golf Penalty," was awarded the Shannon Searles Fiction Prize by Connecticut Review in 2002. His stories have since appeared in the pages of newspapers, magazines, and print anthologies, including Zahir, A Thousand Faces, and Honeyguide. His drama has been seen Off-Broadway. Dixon’s imaginative stories span genres, including historical fiction, alternate history, speculative fiction, magical realism, and literary fiction. The Dick Byrne mysteries written by Brian A. Dixon have featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Havok.

Dixon is also a cultural studies scholar who has written and presented on subjects including nineteenth-century American literature, multimedia in the classroom, the history of the spy thriller, detectives in film and fiction, ethnic humor in British sitcoms, and archetypes in comic books. He is the author of Sex for Dinner, Death for Breakfast: James Bond and the Body (2025) and has contributed to volumes such as Excavating Indiana Jones: Essays on the Films and Franchise (2020), Back to Frank Black: A Return to Chris Carter’s Millennium (2012), and Columbia & Britannia: An Alternate History (2009), nominated for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.

Learn more at dixon.ink.