Gabriel Smith is 28 and lives in London. His fiction has appeared in The Drift, New York Tyrant Magazine, and The Moth, and he was mentored by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant Books. Brat was to be published by Tyrant Books, but will now be published internationally in 2024. This will be followed by The Complete, his second novel, based on his O. Henry Prize-winning short story of the same name.