Barton, Emily

Emily Barton's fiction has appeared in "Story", "American Short Fiction", and "Conjunctions". Her first novel, "The Testament of Yves Gundron", called "blessedly post-ironic, engaging, and heartfelt" by Thomas Pynchon, won the Bard Fiction Prize and was named a "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year. She is the recipient of a 2006 artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2006 fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.