Brian A. Dixon (born April 19, 1980) is an American author, primarily of

short fiction A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

. He was born in

Connecticut Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its cap ...

. His first published short story, "The McMillen Golf Penalty," was awarded the Shannon Searles Fiction Prize by '' Connecticut Review'' in 2002. He has since published short fiction in a number of outlets in addition to work on plays and novels. Dixon served as the editor of ''Revelation'' magazine, an independent literary magazine about the apocalypse. '' Columbia & Britannia'' (2009), an

alternate history Alternate history (also alternative history, althist, AH) is a genre of speculative fiction of stories in which one or more historical events occur and are resolved differently than in real life. As conjecture based upon historical fact, altern ...

anthology edited by Brian A. Dixon and Adam Chamberlain, was nominated for the 2010 Sidewise Award for Alternate History. Dixon and Chamberlain are also the editors of ''Back to Frank Black'' (2012), a volume of original essays and interviews celebrating Chris Carter's ''

Millennium A millennium (plural millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years, sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky). Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (ini ...

''.

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