Rusty Barnes

Rusty Barnes is author of the story collections Breaking it Down (sunnyoutside, 2007), Mostly Redneck (sunnyoutside, 2011), and Kraj: The Enforcer (Shotgun Honey, 2019), as well as four novels: Reckoning(sunnyoutside, 2014), Ridgerunner (Shotgun Honey, 2017), Knuckledragger (Shotgun Honey, 2017), and The Last Danger (Shotgun Honey, 2018). His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies like Dirty Boulevard: Crime Stories Inspired by the...See more

Rusty Barnes is author of the story collections Breaking it Down (sunnyoutside, 2007), Mostly Redneck (sunnyoutside, 2011), and Kraj: The Enforcer (Shotgun Honey, 2019), as well as four novels: Reckoning(sunnyoutside, 2014), Ridgerunner (Shotgun Honey, 2017), Knuckledragger (Shotgun Honey, 2017), and The Last Danger (Shotgun Honey, 2018). His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies like Dirty Boulevard: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of Lou Reed (Down & Out Books, 2018), Best Small Fictions 2015, Switchblade, Mystery Tribune, Goliad Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Red Rock Review, Porter Gulch Review, and Post Road. His poetry collections include On Broad Sound (Nixes Mates Press, 2016) and Jesus in the Ghost Room (Nixes Mates Press, 2017). He founded and edits Tough, a journal of crime fiction. He grew up in rural northern Appalachia See less