Literary Heist

Barbara works at the Dundas Public Library and is a Hamilton-based emerging writer and poet. She was mentored by Canadian poet Jaclyn Desforges through the Writer-in-Residence program at McMaster University and was invited to read at Jaclyn’s finale party in April 2024. She continued to work with Jaclyn in her Poem Garden class the fall semester of 2024. She has a short personal essay published with Canadian Running Magazine in their January-February 2023 issue. She has poetry published with Tower Society Poetry, Poetry Pause through The League of Canadian Poets, and most recently, she will have a poem published in issue seven of The Journal of Undiscovered Poets. She holds an honourable mention for poetry for the Short Works Prize in 2023 through Hamilton Arts & Letters and Hamilton Public Library.