Biography

Jeffrey Barbieri is an essayist and poet who holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He is also a 2020 Luminarts Creative Writing Fellow. He essays with a sociopolitical bent and is currently piecing together a collection on work and a found and lost love and light and play and decay. You can read his writing in The Seneca Review, Cagibi, and The Ocean State Review. He lives in Providence, where he curates a blog dedicated to the city’s abandoned mattresses.