Brian Lee Durfee is an American wildlife, landscape, and fantasy painter, and a fantasy and horror writer. His paintings have appeared in various genre and other magazines, games, and books. One of his wildlife paintings is in the permanent collection at the Grand Canyon National Park visitors center.
Saga Press published his epic grimdark fantasy series, beginning with The Forgetting Moon. He also has a horror alternate history series.
His oil painting, "Grand Canyon Cliffs–Peregrine Falcons", won the 1999 Bird Award of Merit and the Grand Canyon National Park Association Purchase Award.[8] One of his paintings is in the permanent collection at the Kolb Gallery at the visitors center at Grand Canyon National Park.[1] He was the artist guest of honor at CONduit 10 in 2000.[9][10]
Durfee works as a prison guard at the Utah State Prison, where he has worked in the mental health unit, the gang unit, processing new inmates, and overseeing the six libraries within the prison.[1][11] He initially got the job because he wanted to be a police officer, but then decided to stay in that job.[11] He worked with author James Dashner to put on a convention for the inmates at the prison,[11] and he has taught creative writing classes to some of the inmates.[1]
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