Barrett Warner

Poet

Aiken, SC
South Carolina US
Email: 
jbarrettwarner@aol.com
Website: 
barrettwarner.com
Twitter/X: 
@https://twitter.com/_BarrettWarner

Author's Bio

Barrett Warner is the author of Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? (Somondoco Press, 2016) and My Friend Ken Harvey (Publishing Genius, 2014. He has been awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award for his personal essays on farming and the rhythms of farm life. In May, 2019 he received the nonfiction fellowship at the Longleaf Writers’ Conference. In January, 2023 he was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Recent efforts appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Rabbit Catastrophe Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Sou’wester, and Pirene’s Fountain.

Education: 
Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? (Somondoco Press, 2016)
Chapbooks:
My Friend Ken Harvey (Publishing Genius, 2014)
,
'Til I'm Blue in the Face (Tropos Press, 1994)
Journals:
Chiron Review
,
Cloudbank
,
Common Ground Review
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
Natural Bridge
,
Pembroke Magazine
,
Slipstream
Prizes won: 

Liam Rector Prize (Bennington Writing Seminars), Chris Toll Memorial Chapbook Prize (Publishing Genius Press), Princemere Poetry Prize, Salamander Fiction Prize, Tuscon Book Festival Rising Star Prize, Individual Artist Grant (Maryland), Cloudbank Poetry Prize, etc.

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Mary Robison, John Hawkes, Frederick Barthelme, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Basically minimalism meets melodrama in a well-lit alley.
What I'm reading now: 
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Apr 08, 2023