Barret Baumgart is an essayist, screenwriter, and the author of the award-winning nonfiction books China Lake and YUCK. His essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, Vice, LitHub, The Seneca Review, and The Literary Review, among others. He lives in Los Angeles.

BA, Philosophy, UC Berkeley

MFA, Creative Writing, University of Iowa