Barrett Swanson was the 2016-2017 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He was the recipient of a 2015 Pushcart Prize, and his short fiction and essays have been distinguished as "notable" in Best American Nonrequired Reading (2014), Best American Essays (2014, 2015, and 2017), and Best American Sports Writing (2017). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The Guardian, New England Review, The Point, Boston Review, Pacific Standard, Orion, and American Short Fiction.