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:

Cloudbank

Pembroke Magazine

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