Bryan Thomas Schmidt (born February 13, 1969) is an American science fiction author and editor.

He has edited (or co-edited) twenty-two anthologies, and written a space opera trilogy, and an ongoing, near-future police procedural series set in Kansas City, Missouri, and a near future thriller novel being developed as a motion picture.

[5][6] In 2014, he was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor (short form) for his anthology work, but missed the cutoff for the final ballot by six votes.

[n 1][7][8] The following year, he and Brozek edited the fantasy adventure anthology, Shattered Shields, published by Baen Books.

[12] Schmidt worked with WordFire Press in 2016 to release the young adult short story anthology Decision Points.

His second WordFire anthology, Maximum Velocity: The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales, co-edited with Jennifer Brozek, Carol Hightshoe, David Lee Summers, and Dayton Ward, collected the best stories from the "Full-Throttle Space Tales" series of anthologies.

Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, a follow-up anthology to the 2017 collection, was released through Titan Books in November.

A short work, "The Cancellation", appears in Shapers of Worlds, Volume II edited by Edward Willett (November 2021, Shadowpaw Press).