[3] In Alaska, Barron raced the Iditarod three times during the early 1990s,[2] and worked as a fisherman on the Bering Sea.
He became active on the poetry scene,[1] publishing with a number of online journals and eventually serving as the managing editor of the Melic Review.
[5] His professional writing debut occurred in 2001 when Gordon Van Gelder published Shiva, Open Your Eye in the September issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Barron's debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, was published in 2007 by Night Shade Books.
He has stated his affection for pulp fiction, westerns, and noir, and his work typically combines one or more of these elements with a horrific or weird supernatural intrusion.