Gregg Barrios is a playwright, poet, and journalist. He is a 2013 USC Annenberg Getty Fellow, and serves on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters this year. He is the 2015 Fall Visiting Writer at Our Lady of the Lake University. His work has appeared in Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, Film Quarterly, San Francisco Chronicle, and Andy Warhol’s Interview. He is a former book editor of the San Antonio Express-News. He has received a CTG-Mark Taper Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Grant, and a 2013 Artist Foundation Grant for his theater work. His play Ship of Fools about Texas writer Katherine Anne Porter premieres this year in San Antonio’s Overtime Theater. He is collaborating with actor and filmmaker James Franco on a book of his experimental work in poetry and film.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Talking Tennessee: A Conversation with John Lahr
Gregg Barrios talks to John Lahr about Tennessee Williams....
A Conversation with Richard Blanco: "One Today," One Year Later
Richard Blanco – the first openly gay, the first Latino, and the youngest presidential inauguration poet ever....
James Franco on His Earliest Reading and Latest Writing
YOU KNOW WHO James Franco is. He is a household name, an award-winning actor, the sexiest person on the planet. But ...
“He is a writer of fiction. He puts on masks for a living.”: An Interview with Junot Diaz
JUNOT DIAZ’S LITERARY STAR keeps rising. In the past two weeks, The New York Times featured Díaz in their ...
