Brad Barkley

Brad Barkley is the author of the novels “Money, Love” and “Alison’s Automotive Repair Manual,” named as Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post and Library Journal. He has published two story collections (“Circle View,” “Another Perfect Catastrophe”), and his short work has appeared in 40+ magazines including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, and Virginia Quarterly Review, which twice awarded him the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Fiction. His fiction has been anthologized in “New Stories from the South” and noted in “Best American Short Stories.” He’s also the co-author of three YA novels — “Scrambled Eggs at Midnight,” “Dream Factory,” and “Jars of Glass” — recognized by organizations such as the American Library Association and the New York State Reading Association. Before becoming Professor of Creative Writing, he worked a string of odd jobs—from short-order cook and roofer to telemarketer, dairy bottling line worker, and even hang-gliding instructor—work that keeps his fiction grounded in real places and people. He has received multiple Maryland State Arts Council awards and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in the mountains of Maryland with his wife, Kristin, and their dog Mille. Find out more about him at www.bradbarkley.com.