Barry Graham is a four-time National Tic-Tac-Toe Association (NTTTA) champion (1988,
1994, 2004, 2006). He graduated from Rutgers University with an MFA in Creative Writing and from Eastern Michigan University with an MA. Barry currently teaches writing at Rutgers University and spends the off-season in the poker room at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. In 2008 he won the Jumpmettle Award for excellence in fiction. His debut short-story collection, The National Virginity Pledge (Another Sky Press) was released in February 2009 and was recently named a finalist for an NGI Book Award in short story / fiction.