Trent Roman is a Canadian writer and academic interested in speculative fiction of all sorts, currently completing a dissertation on the origins of disaster fiction. He is a recipient of the Chester Macnaghten Prize in creative writing, and his short fiction has appeared from independent press venues in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and South Africa. He is available on Twitter as @DisasterScholar, where he maintains the Disaster A Day feed.

As Trent Roman

“The Acculturate” Bondage: Tales of Obsession. Tyree Campbell, ed. Sam’s Dot Publishing, Cedar Rapids, 2006.

“Against the Storm” 2012AD. Severed Press, 2009.

“Allure” Animal Magnetism: A Charitable Anthology. S.A. Parham & W. Olivia Race, eds. Lulu, 2005.

“Chrysalis” Dragons Composed. James Ferris, ed. Kerlak Publishing, Memphis, 2008.

“The Communion Fields” Queer Dimensions. James EM Rasmussen, ed. QueeredFiction Press, Durban, 2010.

“The Conclave” Tangle Girls. Nicole Kimberling, ed. Blind Eye Books, Bellingham, 2009.

“Confessions of a Call Herm” Things We Are Not: M-Brane SF Presents New Tales of the Queer. Christopher Fletcher, ed. M-Brane SF, 2009.

“The Conscience of the King” Dia de los Muertos: A Day of the Dead Anthology. Angela Charmaine Craig, ed. Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2010.

“Creeping Barrage” Orphans of the Storm. Diana Cacy Hawkins, ed. Whispering Spirits Digital Magazine, 2007.

“The Dandy” Way out West: Thrilling Tales of Weirdness in the Wild West! Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon, eds. Fourth Horseman Press, 2009.

“Decrepitude” Blood, Sweat, and Fears: Horror Inspired by the 1970s. David T. Neal & Christine M. Scott, eds. Nosetouch Press, Chicago, 2016.

“Do You Know the Mojo Man?” Bone Ballet. John Weagly, ed. Iguana Publications, Chicago, 2005.

“The Drowning of New Orleans” Quakes and Storms: A Natural Disaster Anthology. Macey Baggett Wuesthoff & Nickolaus A. Pacione, eds. Lulu, 2005.

“Empty Epochs” Desolate Places. Eric T. Reynolds, ed. Hadley Rille Books, Overland Park, 2008.

“Ghosts of the Bayou” Damned in Dixie: Southern Horror. Ron Shiflet, ed. Tenoka Press, 2007.

“The Great Genome Robbery” Science Fiction Trails #4. David B. Riley, ed. Science Fiction Trails Publishing, Avon, 2009.

“Hand and Cradle” Dark Pages: Tales of Dark Speculative Fiction. Brenton Tomlinson, ed. Blade Red Press, 2010.

“The Heat has Fangs” Day Terrors. Kfir Luzzatto & Dru Pagliassotti, eds. The Harrow Press, Thousand Oaks, 2011.

“Hecatomb” Vermin: An eBook Anthology. David A. Rose, ed. Rymfire eBooks, 2009.

“Hemophobia” Blood Fruit. James EM Rasmussen, ed. QueeredFiction Press, Durban, 2010.

“Hermaphrodites are from Mercury” Otherworlds: Tales of Dark Speculative Fiction. Doyle Eldon Wilmoth, Jr., ed. SpecFicWorld.com, 2008.

“How Quagga Lost His Stripes” Wild Child Publishing, 2006.

“In Media Res Publica” Goodbye, Darwin. Cavan Terrill & G.R.C. Lewis, eds. Apodis Publishing, 2006.

“Infinity-Bar Ranch” Southern Comfort: A Charitable Anthology. S.A. Parham & W. Olivia Race, eds. Lulu, 2005.

“The Invasion Out of Time” Cthulhu Unbound. Thomas Brannan & John Sunseri, eds. Permuted Press, 2008.

“The Ka Flap” Twisted Cat Tales. Esther Schrader, ed. Coscom Entertainment, Winnipeg, 2006.

“Lost and Found” Shadow Regions. César Puch, ed. Surreal Books, Salem, 2006.

“Riven” Another Place: Brief Disruptions. Ashley Cyr, ed. Bushmead Publishing, Toronto, 2016.

“Sand-Castle Knights” Strange Stories of Sand and Sea. Esther Schrader, ed. Fine Tooth Press, Waterbury, 2008.

“Self-Portrait on a Hyperspace Canvass: A Study in N-Dimensions” Stories from the Near-Future. Andrew MacRea, ed. Darkhouse Books, Niles, 2016.

“Sleepwalker” Myriad Lands: Volume 1: Around the World. David Stokes, ed. Guardbridge Books, St. Andrews, 2016.

“The Slumber of the Gods” Butterfly Affects: An Alternate Futures Anthology. Adicus Ryan Garton, ed. Susurrus Press, 2009.

“The Tax Man Cometh” Star Spangled Zombie: An Anthology of American Horror. Maniac Press, 2006.

“Viscera” Dark Portals: Tales of Dark Speculative Fiction. Doyle Eldon Wilmoth, Jr., ed. SpecFicWorld.com, 2009.

“When the Bough Breaks” Revenant: A Horror Anthology. Armand Rosamilia, ed. Rymfire eBooks, 2011.

As Steve Asselin

“Corsair Summer” The Lamp, Volume 5. Jessica Moore, ed. Piquant Press, Kingston, 2015.

“Rapture” Running the Line: Stories of the Space Elevator. Bradley Edwards & David Raitt, eds. European Space Agency, 2005.

“The Spring in Her Step” The Lamp, Volume 6. Emily Leach & Lindsay Young, eds. Society of Graduate and Professional Students, Kingston, 2016.

“Teratesla” Tales of Innovation and Imagination. David Raitt & Barbara Warmbein, eds. European Space Agency, Noordwijk, 2004.

“Winter Protest” The Lamp, Volume 4. Jessica Moore, ed. Piquant Press, Kingston, 2014.