Steven Barker is the author of the essay collection “Now for the Disappointing Part: A Pseudo-Adult’s Decade of Short-Term Jobs, Long-Term Relationships, and Holding Out for Something Better,” released by Skyhorse Publishing. He is a 2014-2015 Made at Hugo Fellow, and a co-founder of “Cheap Wine & Poetry” and “Cheap Beer & Prose.” His work has appeared in Salon, Brevity, HAD, The Weeklings, Split Lip Magazine, PageBoy Magazine, The Monarch Review, Geekwire, and elsewhere.
Books
Selected work
Lessons Learned from Small Talk and Basketball
HAD, 2024
Under the Table with Fiona
Brevity Blog, 2020
I called Myself Sandwich Enthusiast
The Monarch Review, 2015
Jeff Bezos relies on lowly grunts like me: Life as a cog in the Amazon machine
2015
American Temp — Split Lip Magazine
Split Lip Magazine, 2014
What Can Brown Do for Me?
The weeklings, 2014