11 Facts About Ross Barkan

Ross Elliot Barkan was born on October 22,1989 and is an American journalist, novelist, and essayist.

Ross Barkan attended Stony Brook University and earned a master's degree from New York University.

Ross Barkan covered New York City and national politics for the New York Observer from 2013 to 2016.

Ross Barkan covered the 2013 New York City mayoral race, including Anthony Weiner's campaign, and the 2016 presidential race.

Ross Barkan has taught journalism and media studies at NYU and St Joseph's College in Brooklyn.

Ross Barkan was a staff reporter at New York Magazine and remains a columnist there.

Ross Barkan is currently a columnist for The Guardian and was a columnist for Jacobin magazine.

Ross Barkan has published fiction in Post Road, Boston College's literary magazine, and literary criticism in the Iowa Review, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, and The Brooklyn Rail.

In October 2017, Ross Barkan announced he was running in a State Senate primary in New York City, planning to run in the Democratic Party primary and if successful to then challenge incumbent Marty Golden in 2018.

Ross Barkan's campaign was managed by future-Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and endorsed by the New York Daily News and local politicians such as Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but he lost the September 2018 Democratic primary to Andrew Gounardes by 15 percentage points.

Ross Barkan has twice been the recipient of the New York Press Club's award for distinguished newspaper commentary, in 2017 and 2019.