Brian Trent is the author of the sci-fi-novel Ten Thousand Thunders (published in 2018 by Flame Tree Press), and the Rahotep dark fantasy series. His contribution to Grimm, Grit and Gasoline is an original tale that explores dieselpunk in a deliberately non-western setting, mixing in fairy tale elements from ancient Chinese and Japanese traditions. His short fiction regularly appears in the world's top markets, including Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Terraform, Daily Science Fiction, The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Galaxy's Edge, Nature, and more. A Writers of the Future winner and contributing author to Baen Books anthologies, Trent lives in a foggy mountaintop town in New England. His website is www.briantrent.com.