Barrett Swanson

Barrett Swanson was the 2016-2017 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and was the recipient of a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His short fiction and essays have been distinguished as "notable" in Best American Nonrequired Reading (2014), Best American Sports Writing (2017), and Best American Essays (2014, 2015, and 2017). His work has appeared most recently in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, Orion, New England Review, The Point, Boston Review, American Short Fiction, The Southern Review, and Guernica. Barrett received his MFA at University of Wisconsin-Madison.