Tom Barbash is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction, as well as an educator and critic.
[1][2] Barbash has served as host for onstage events for The Commonwealth Club, Litquake, BookPassage, and the Lannan Foundation.
Barbash has held fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, The James Michener Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
[4] Barbash is the author of the novels Dakota Winters[5] and The Last Good Chance, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal.
[2] He was formerly a reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard, an experience that helped to shape his novel The Last Good Chance.