is the author of Eternal Night at the Nature Museum (Sarabande Books) and The Quiet Part Loud (Split/Lip). His short fiction has appeared The Iowa Review, DIAGRAM, NANO Fiction, Subtropics, Wigleaf, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and many others. Stories from Eternal Night have been awarded prizes and honors from Kenyon Review, Phoebe Journal, The Chicago Review of Books, The Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions, and have twice been named “Distinguished” by Best American Short Stories. His visual poetry project, Gutters has been featured in The Adroit Journal, Northwest Review, december, The Pinch, and elsewhere.
With the artist Erin Dorney he co-curates the ongoing literary art installation, “The Hidden Museum,” currently on view at the Susquehanna Museum of Art in Harrisburg, PA. Dorney and Barton are the co-founders of Fear No Lit, an organization dedicated to unique literary experiences.
Barton lives in Saranac Lake, NY, where he works as the program manager for the Adirondack Center for Writing and leads creative writing workshops for older adults in prison and in assisted living facilities.
