Emily Barton

About Emily Barton

The Testament of Yves Gundron (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000) was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Month, and received the Bard Fiction Prize. Brookland (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006) was also named a New York Times Notable Book, one of the twenty-five best 2006 works of fiction and poetry by the Los Angeles Times, and a 2007 selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, the oldest book club in the country. It was also long-listed for Dublin’s IMPAC prize. My fiction, criticism, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Story magazine, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the New York Observer, Poetry magazine, Nextbook, and Bookforum. In 2006 I received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.