Brad Barkley
Brad Barkley is an American short fiction writer, novelist, young adult novelist and a professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
He has received four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the novels Money, Love and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual, as well as two short-story collections and three Young Adult novels. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, and The Oxford American. He also writes and publishes on the sport of hang gliding.