Brian Brett (April 28, 1950 – January 17, 2024) was a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and novelist.

He grew up with a rare endocrine disorder, Kallmann syndrome, which prevented his body from entering puberty; he later wrote a memoir about the effect this has had on his life.

In the early 1970s, he worked as a freelance journalist and critic for The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun, The New Reader, Books in Canada, and the Victoria Times-Colonist.

For ten years he wrote a monthly newspaper column called CultureWatch for the Yukon News.

[2] In November 2009, Brett won Canada's Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize for Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life.