Barry Graham is a four-time National Tic-Tac-Toe Association (NTTTA) champion (1988,

1994, 2004, 2006). He graduated from Rutgers University with an MFA in Creative Writing and from Eastern Michigan University with an MA. Barry currently teaches writing at Rutgers University and spends the off-season in the poker room at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. In 2008 he won the Jumpmettle Award for excellence in fiction. His debut short-story collection, The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press) was released in February 2009 and was recently named a finalist for an NGI Book Award in short story / fiction.

PUBLICATIONS & PRIZES

Books: This Isn’t Who We Are (Dogzplot, 2012), Nothing or Next to Nothing (Main Street Rag, 2011), The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press, 2008)

Journals: Cause and Effect Magazine, Cella’s Round Trip, Corium Magazine, Curbside Splendor, Decomp, Elimae, Everyday Genius, Frigg Magazine, GHOTI, Hobart, Insolent Rudder, Keyhole, Kill Author, Los Angeles Review, Mad Hatters’ Review, Monkeybicycle, Mud Luscious, nimble, Pank, Pear Noir!, Pequin, Pindeldyboz, Prick of the Spindle, Quick Fiction, Collagist, SmokeLong Quarterly, Storyglossia, Temenos Journal, thieves jargon, Wigleaf, Writers Block, Yankee Pot Roast

Prizes won: Jumpmettle Award, NGI Book Award (finalist)

In 2018, Barry was honored with the title of Michigan Beat Poet Laureate (2018-2020) by the National Beat poetry Foundation, Inc. located in Connecticut, USA.