Barry Gifford has been called a master of the dark side of American reality. He is the author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Wild at Heart, adapted in film by director David Lynch; Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems; Roy’s World, also the title of the documentary film about Gifford; The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea (2022); Writers (expanded ed., 2023); and Ghost Years (2024). In 2006 he was awarded the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Prize for Fiction.
Photograph by Tiago Russo Pinto.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Another Irishman, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2022–2023
- The Cuban Club, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018
- The Religious Experience, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017
- The Red Studebaker, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2012–2013
- The Exception, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2009–2010
- Six Million and One, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2010–2011
- Portrait of the Artist with Four Other Guys, a short short, in Stories of the Week: 2008–2009
- The Age of Fable, a short short, in Spring 2008
- Door to the River, a short short, in Winter 2007