Brad Barkley, a native of North Carolina, is the author of the novel, Money, Love (Norton), a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection and a "BookSense 76" choice.àMoney, Love was named one of the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post and the Library Journal. Brad was named one of the âÂÂBreakthrough Writers You Need To Knowâ by Book Magazine.àHis novel Alison's Automotive Repair Manual (St. MartinâÂÂs) was also a "BookSense 76" selection.àHe has published two collections of short stories, Circle View (SMU Press) and Another Perfect Catastrophe (St. MartinâÂÂs).àHis short fiction has appeared in nearly thirty magazines, includingàSouthern Review, Georgia Review, the Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Book Magazine, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, which twice awarded him the Emily Balch Prize for Best Fiction.àHis work has been anthologized in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2002.àHis first YA novel, Scrambled Eggs At Midnight, co-authored with Heather Hepler, was published in May 2006 by Penguin, and was a summer 2006 âÂÂBooksense 76â choice.àHis second YA novel, Dream Factory, published in spring 2007, was also âÂÂBookSense 76â selection, a Library Guild âÂÂBook of the Month, pickâ and was voted the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters âÂÂBest Young Adult Bookâ for 2007.àTheir most recent title, Jars of Glass, was recently published by Dutton-Penguin.àHe has received four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the novels Money, Love (Norton) and Alison's Automotive Repair Manual (St. Martins), as well as two short-story collections and three Young Adult novels. His short fiction has appeared in such magazines as Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, and The Oxford American.