Philip BarbaraPushcart Prize-nominated author Philip Barbara's literary fiction focuses on social issues. His novella, The Hartford Atonement, is about a billionaire using wealth to bring about gun reform. In the short story The Church, adapted into a radio play b an NPR affiliate, a sandwich maker at a kosher cafeteria near the UN overhears Middle East negotiations. In Dreams Exchanged, an immigration agent finishes off what industrial automation started, eliminating jobs, and The Buzzing shows why Canada geese migrate more easily than humans. As a journalist for 30 years at Reuters, he helped cover mass murders from Columbine to Sandy Hook. He was an editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology and a staff writer for the Bergen Record, where he shared national awards for public service reporting. He earned a Bachelor's at Fordham University and a Master's at the City University of New York's Brooklyn campus. Read More Read Less