Cal Barton is a writer from St. Louis, Missouri.

He graduated from Yale in 2025, earning a B.A. in Making Stuff Up + Writing It Down.

He’s working on a book about long-dead British painters.

His writing is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, and he claims to write twice weekly on his Substack, Truth in Mosaic.

Cal teaches American literature at The Rivers School and lives in Cambridge, MA.