Samuel Rafael Barber is 0.00000001224994% of the population, a Chicano from South Texas, and author of the forthcoming story collection The Box in Which We Live, winner of the 2026 John Simmons Short Fiction Award from the University of Iowa Press. He holds a PhD in English and Literary Arts from the University of Denver, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and an MA in English & Comparative Literature from Columbia. His fiction has appeared in DIAGRAM, Passages North, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. According to life expectancy tables, he will live another 48.6 years.
1992 Birth (San Antonio, TX)
2015 Brown University A.B. (Literary Arts / English)
2017 University of Arizona M.F.A. (Creative Writing, Fiction)
2018 Columbia University M.A. (English & Comparative Literature)
2024 University of Denver Ph.D. (English & Literary Arts)
2074 Death (Expected)