Brian Howell
Brian Howell (born 1961) is an author and teacher living and working near Tokyo, Japan. He has published three novels and one short story collection since 1990. His first novel, "The Dance of Geometry", and his first collection, "The Sound of White Ants", were both reviewed favourably by Toby Lichtig in The London Magazine. His novels focus on Dutch seventeenth-century painters with an interest in optical devices. His stories have elements of the weird, fantasy, and magical realism.