Emily Barton

Education

• MFA, Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 1995
• AB, summa cum laude, Harvard & Radcliffe Colleges, 1991

Biography

Emily Barton is the author of three novels: The Book of Esther, Brookland, and The Testament of Yves Gundron. Her fiction, criticism, and essays have appeared in many publications, including Story magazine, American Short Fiction, Conjunctions, the Massachusetts Review, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Jewish Daily Forward’s Sisterhood blog, the New York Observer, Poetry magazine, Tablet.com, Kveller.com, and the Threepenny Review. 

Her work has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation of Yaddo, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Barton also has won the Bard Fiction Prize.

Before coming to teach at Oberlin, Barton taught at New York University, Yale University, Columbia University, Smith College, Bard College, and Princeton University.