Chris Barili
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Chris Barili

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Chris Barili wrote his first novel when he was fourteen (finishing at age 16), an absolutely horrible fantasy novel that will never see the light of day again. He also co-edited his high school literary magazine. Graduating high school in 2984, he kept writing, despite selling nothing. In 1993 he studied English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, including several fiction workshops with Professor Richard Duggin. Graduating Summa Kum Laude, Chris continued writing but just couldn’t get a sale. Finally, in 2013, still lacking publication, Chris decided to use his GI Bill to attend Western State Colorado University as part of their Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. What he learned in that program turned out to be just the fuel needed, too. During the first summer residency, Chris wrote a western short story called “Yellow.” That sold (under the pseudonym T.C. Barlow) to the now-defunct “Western Online” website, and became Chris’ first fiction sale. The sequel to “Yellow was titled, “Good From a Whiskey Bottle, and sold to the same website.” Now, over a decade later, Chris has sold over twenty short stories, and is an anchor author in several short fiction anthologies from Wordcrafter Books. Hstories and his MFA thesis—a Supernatural Romance titled Smothered—To Winlock Press under the pen name B.T. Clearwater. His “backup thesis,” the fantasy novel Shadow Blade, sold to Wordfire Publications., making Chris the first MFA student to traditionally see their thesis. Chris is retired from active duty in the US Air Force, and will retire in 2027 from his current day job as a civilian employee of the US Army. He lives in the Colorado Springs area with the most amazing woman he has ever known.
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