Barry Callaghan

Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan (born July 5, 1937) is a Canadian author, poet and anthologist. He is currently the editor-in-chief of Exile Quarterly and the founder of the book publisher Exile Editions. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

He won the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction for his collection All the Lonely People. In 2006 Priscita Uppal edited Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works a volume in the Guernica Editions 'Essential Writers Series' under general editor Joseph Pivato.

Selected bibliography The Hogg Poems and Drawings – 1978 As Close as We Came – 1982 The Black Queen Stories – 1982 The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings – 1989 Stone Blind Love – 1989 Canadian Travellers in Italy – 1989 (editor) Exile: The First Fifteen Years – 1992 (editor) Lords of Winter and of Love: A Book of Canadian Love Poems in English and French – 1993] 'When Things Get Worse – 1993 A Kiss is Still a Kiss – 1995 This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories – 1996 (editor) Barrelhouse Kings – 1998 We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War – 2001 (edited with Bruce Meyer) Young Bloods: Stories from Exile 1972–2001 – 2001 (editor) Between Trains – 2007 Beside Still Waters – 2009 All the Lonely People: Collected Stories - 2018