Brian Belefant left a glamorous career writing national and international ad campaigns for Pepsi, Pizza Hut, Skippy, and Visa to create stuff that didn’t make him throw up a little in his mouth. People he used to work with tell him that his 2024 novella 'The Sultan of Garbage' was an eloquent professional suicide note––it eviscerates the culture of consumption and waste Brian spent years helping to promote.
Brian was a finalist for the Unleash Press 2024 WIP Prize, shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize, Highly Commended by the Irish Writers Festival 2025 Novel Fair, and a finalist for the Fjords Review Full Length Book Award. His short stories appear in Sequestrum, Blue Mountain Review, American Writers Review, Magpie Messenger, and Half and One. Five screenplays he wrote collected more than two dozen awards, including the Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival.
He's currently at work on his third novel––when he's not struggling to learn Japanese with his autistic son.
