duncan b. barlow is the author of A Dog Between Us (Stalking Horse 2019), The City, Awake (Stalking Horse 2017), Of Flesh and Fur (The Cupboard 2016), and AWRY: Stories (Bridge VIII Books 2025). His work has appeared in The North American Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Collagist, Word Riot, Juked, The Fanzine, Sleeping Fish, Matter Press, among many others. He teaches horror literature and theory and fiction at the University of South Dakota, where he is publisher at Astrophil Press and the managing editor at South Dakota Review. He has also edited for Tarpaulin Sky and The Bombay Gin, among others.

Before writing, duncan b. barlow was a touring musician who played with Endpoint, By The Grace of God, Guilt, the aasee lake, The Lull Account, Good Riddance, and many more. His interviews about music and subculture have been published in academic texts, books, and magazines such as: Straight Edge: Clean-Living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change on Rutgers University Press, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet Collected Interviews on Akashic Books, and Burning Fight on Revelation Records.