Wilton Barnhardt is an American author and journalist from Winston-Salem, NC. Barnhardt received degrees from Michigan State University, Brasenose College, and the University of Oxford, and went on to work as a reporter for Sports Illustrated, before returning to a university setting to teach fiction writing to undergraduate and graduate students that the North Carolina State University. Additionally, he has been visiting M.F.A. faculty at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and a visiting writer at the California Institute of Technology. Barnhardt’s published works include Emma Who Saved My Life (1989), Gospel (1993), Show World (1999), and Lookaway, Lookaway (2013). Barnhardt is currently working on a consolidating collections of his short stories for upcoming publication.
Portrait by Nancy Crampton
