Barrett Swanson is the 2016–2017 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He is the recipient of a 2015 Pushcart Prize, and his short fiction and essays have been distinguished as notable in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and The Best American Essays.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

On Commuting
Barrett Swanson confuses and elucidates the act of commuting, while drawing on his own experiences of life and travel....

Act Naturally: Pretentiousness, Coolness, and Culture
Barrett Swanson reads two new books on the presentation of the self....
