Always an intelligent kid, B.E. felt different from their peers from a very young age. Enrolled in their school’s gifted education classes, they received a unique education and developed a love for language. They excelled in the academic side of school but struggled socially. Constantly feeling ostracized and often picked on by classmates, B.E. found solace in reading science fiction. Their dream of becoming an astronaut morphed into a dream of writing the next great science fiction novel.

B.E. attended college at San Francisco State University and obtained a bachelor’s in creative writing along with a minor in cinema. It is also there that B.E. came to terms with their gender and sexuality. First coming out as queer in 2015 and later coming out as non-binary in 2019.

They have written and published several short stories including a historical fiction piece entitled Key, Painted Red centered around a black girl and her white gay friend in the 1970s South. This story and two others earned Brin the YoungArts Merit Award in short fiction in 2014.

They are currently working towards their master’s degree in fiction writing at Southern New Hampshire University as they work on completing their debut novel about a generation ship, a crafty A.I., gender, and the meaning of life.