Presenter

Barrett Swanson

Barrett Swanson is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and the author of the essay collection Lost in Summerland (Counterpoint, May 2021). He was the 2016-2017 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and was the recipient of a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in many places, including Harper’s, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, The New Republic, The Guardian, The Paris Review, The Atavist, and two editions of Best American Travel Writing.