Phillip Barcio is an award winning author, journalist, radio host, cocktail aficionado, Neapolitan pizza expert, hyper-competitive amateur bowler, social media skeptic, degrowth proponent, animal protector and enthusiastic advocate for bucket hats.
His story The Vacantlands won Boulevard Magazine's Non-Fiction Award for Emerging Writers, and is in the current print issue of the journal.
His work has also been featured in Western Humanities Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Space Squid, Swamp Ape Review, Tikkun, Hyperallergic, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Big Windows Review and dozens of other fine publications. He has created several radio shows for WQRT, an experimental art, music, and community radio project by Big Car Collaborative, including the pandemic-inspired series Apocalypse Mixtape, and the artist interview series Art Racket.
He earned a degree in filmmaking from Vancouver Film School, degrees in photojournalism and theater from Ball State University and a 2nd degree black belt from a little karate school in Indianapolis.
Phillip lives in an old house in Muncie, Indiana, with a garage dojo and a vegetable garden where he and the neighbours get together to chat and let their dogs rub noses.
Ed lives with his wife plus a magical assortment of native animals in tropical North Queensland.
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