Barbara Croft Mailing Address: 202 N. Kenilworth Ave. Oak Park, IL. 60302 County: Cook E-Mail: blcroft@aol.com Phone: 708-763-0193 Genre: Fiction

Periodical Publications:

• Fiction:

• "How I Lost My Father," Nimrod, Fall, 1999
• "A Little Something Against the Cold," in The Talking of Hands, New Rivers Press, Fall 1998
• "Karner Blue," Whetstone, Fall, 1998
• "Drowning in Lake Michigan," ACM, Summer 1997
• "Bonaparte," Sou'wester, Fall 1992
• "A Little Piece of Star," Kenyon Review, Summer 1989
• Stories also published in Calapooya Collage, Poet & Critic, Colorado Quarterly, & Plainswoman

• Non-Fiction:

• "Road Scholar," MS, Feb/March, 2000
• "Keeping Busy," The Women's Review of Books, Feb., 1991
• "Remembering an Iowa Childhood," Kansas Quarterly, Fall, 1988
• "The Decline of Sentiment," Cimarron Review, Oct., 1981
• "If You Can't Sell Books, Sell Books," Writer's Digest, Feb., 1980

Book Publications:

• Necessary Fictions (short stories), U. of Pittsburgh Press, Fall 1998
• Primary Colors, and Other Stories, New Rivers Press, 1991
• "Stylistic Arrangements": A Study of W.B. Yeats's 'A Vision', Bucknell UP, 1987
• Getting a Job: Resume Writing, Job Application Letters and Interview Strategies, Merrill, 1989

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Society Prie for Novella, 2000, for Columbia
• Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, 1999, honorable mention
• Adult Fiction Award, Society of Midland Authors, 1999, for Necessary Fictions
• Drue Heinz Literature Prize for Necessary Fictions, 1998
• Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Grant in Prose (1996 & 2000) & Literary Award (fiction, 1994)
• Pushcart Prize XVI: 1990-1991, 1991-1992, special mention in fiction
• Iowa Arts Council Literary Awards, second place, fiction, 1985, first place, fiction, 1990
• Daniel Curley Award for Recent Illinois Short Fiction, 1994
• Minnesota Voices Project award in fiction, New Rivers Press, 1989

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

Recent Workshops:

Present Employment:

• Self Employed Writer

Preferred Audience:

• No preferred audience

Willing to travel:

• yes