Nikki Barnhart
About
Nikki Barnhart’s work has been featured in publications such as The Cincinnati Review, Post Road, Juked, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, the AWP Intro Journals Prize, and the Pushcart Prize. She earned her MFA in 2024 from The Ohio State University, where she was a Distinguished University Fellow and the winner of the Tara M. Kroger Prize for the Best Short Story by an MFA Student. While at OSU, she also served as the Interviews and Reviews Editor for The Journal, and the Managing Editor for The Non/Fiction Collection Prize. She has received support from the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and is an alumna of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Originally from Connecticut, she is currently a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati. She is at work on a short story collection and a novel.
Selected Work
Fiction
Here Lies — X-R-A-Y
Rabbit Rabbit — The Cincinnati Review
The Butterfly Room — New Delta Review
Flying Horses — The McNeese Review — nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Best True Love Stories — Post Road
Clara and the Nutcracker — Subnivean — nominated for the Pushcart Prize
The House — Your Impossible Voice — nominated for Best Small Fictions
Security Questions — Superstition Review
Pareidolia — Quarter After Eight
The Boys Team — Phoebe — nominated for Best of the Net
Quick and Easy Meals For One — FEED mag
Nonfiction
Down the Rabbit Hole — The Cincinnati Review blog
The Marigold House — Tidelines zine
Cataracts — Barnstorm
Real Subject — Juked
Albums of Our Lives: Mister Loveless’s ‘Grow Up’ — The Rumpus
Interviews & Reviews
The Land of Enstrangement: On Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other — The Journal
Where the Haunting Happens: On Jessi Jezewska Stevens’ Ghost Pains — The Journal
Art, Memory, Time, and Nature: A Review of Christine Lai’s Landscapes — The Journal
Impressions of Time: An Interview with Christine Lai — The Journal
…The Gossamer Sensation of What Is Past: An Interview with Jamel Brinkley — The Journal
Interview with Morgan Christie on her collection, These Bodies — Full Stop