Barry Gifford has been called a master of the dark side of American reality. Wild at Heart, his novel about two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road, was adapted in film by director David Lynch. In 2006 he was awarded the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Prize for Fiction. More recent work includes Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems and The Roy Stories.
Photograph by Tiago Russo Pinto.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- 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