Brad R. Torgersen (born April 6, 1974) is an American science fiction author whose short stories regularly appear in various anthologies and magazines, including Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. In 2015 Torgensen took charge of the anti-diversity right-wing Sad Puppies movement, which was yearly, unsuccessful attempts to rig the voting in the Hugo Awards in favour of straight, white and male writers who they believed, were being ignored by other voters due to being white men. He was replaced the following campaign.