daniel barrios is interested in the small moments people survive: a haircut, a joke between brothers, a long silence at a kitchen table.
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daniel barrios is interested in the small moments people survive: a haircut, a joke between brothers, a long silence at a kitchen table. He writes to understand those moments a little better. Most of the time he is somewhere between New York and the Caribbean, listening to the splishes and splashes of seagulls cackling while hovering over ferries along the Hudson and mermaids swirling foreshore during shimmering overcasted beaches in Borikén.
daniel barrios (he/him/él) is a Dominican/Puerto Rican writer and educator from Staten Island, New York. His debut collection of short stories, A Good Impression, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Cornerstone Press (2028). His collection was a finalist for the 2025 EastOver Prize for Debut Short Story Collections and a 2025 finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series. His fiction is published in Tendon Magazine, Pleiades Magazine, Action-Spectacle, The Brooklyn Review, forthcoming in The Drift & Dribble Miscellany and other belles-lettres journals. His debut poetry is forthcoming in Viction Magazine’s inaugural issue.
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Debut short story collection. Cornerstone Press — University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (2028).
Finalist — EastOver Prize for Debut Short Story Collections
Finalist — Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writing Series
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