Barth Anderson's imaginative fiction, called "rollicking, "barbed and witty," and "wildly inventive," has appeared in Asimov's, Strange Horizons, Polyphony, Alchemy, and a variety of other quality venues. Several of his stories have received Honorable Mentions in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.

As a member of the Ratbastards writing and publishing group, he co-edited the first three critically acclaimed Rabid Transit chapbooks. In 2004, he received the Spectrum Award for Best Short Fiction for his short story "Lark Till Dawn Princess," and his first novel is forthcoming from Bantam (Bantam Spectra).

Barth also writes about the politics and economics of food and has traveled to see coffee production first hand in rural Nicaragua. He serves on the Organic Task Force for Minnesota's Department of Agriculture and writes a food column for the Wedge Co-op Newsletter, which was nominated by the Utne Reader for Best of the Indie Press.

Though Barth grew up in a small Wisconsin town, he spent a great deal of time with his family of inveterate travelers in Mexico — a country with a deeply mythic sense of self, where "magic" is not often a metaphor. This meant looking at life through very unfamiliar windows — and rendered his Wisconsin life all the more surreal! His delight in fiction and films that play with frames of perception certainly flows from these contrasts.

Barth has read Tarot for 27 years, bakes a bad-ass kashka bread, and, currently, he's proudly honing his fatherhood skills. He lives with his wife Lisa and son Isaiah in Minneapolis.

Check out his website for up-to-date publishing news. Online, Barth's fiction and poetry can be found at Strange Horizons, Fortean Bureau, and Lone Star.