About

Pushcart Prize-nominated author Philip Barbara’s fiction draws on three decades as a journalist at Reuters, where he assisted the global agency’s coverage of mass murders from Columbine to Sandy Hook. Afterward, he researched the ongoing terror of mass shootings in America. His novella The Hartford Atonement is textured with penetrating insights into the terrible truth about gun violence in our country and suggests a way it can be addressed.

In his short story ‘The Church,’ a sandwich maker at a cafeteria near the United Nations thinks he overhears two delegates, one Israeli the other Palestinian, negotiating a Middle East peace. The story appeared in The Delmarva Review, was adapted into a radio play by an NPR affiliate station, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His story ‘Iron Horse’ was a July pick of the month on Fiction on the Web. ‘The Buzzing’ appeared in the Lowestoft Chronicle and in the anthology “The Vicarious Traveler.” His fiction has also appeared in BULL Men’s Fiction, fictionjunkies and The Corvus Review.

Before joining Reuters, he served as a news editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology, a magazine covering the U.S. defense industries and its nuclear arsenal, the airline industry, and the Space Shuttle program. Later at Reuters, he appeared on PBS’s Nightly Business Report to discuss the resumption of shuttle launches after the Columbia disaster. He was also interviewed on radio about the dangers of steroidal use by high school athletes.

His four-decade career in journalism began at The Bergen Record, where he shared national honorable mentions for an investigative report into the administrative neglect and abuse of the Palisades Interstate Park overlooking the Hudson River.