Books and Publications

Barbara has essays in two of the collections edited by famed humorist and author, Gina Barreca. The Fast Women series includes Fast Fierce Women (March 2022) and Fast Fallen Women (September 2023). This series features essays from such notable women as: NYT bestselling novelist Caroline Leavitt, NPR's own Maureen Corrigan, award-winning poet Phillis Levin, stand-up comic Leighann Lord, Founder and Director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Teri Rizvi, acclaimed authors, Amy Tan, Jane Smiley, Darien Hsu Gee, Honor Moore, and Ilene Beckerman, playwright Beth Blatt, and many more ground-breaking journalists, novelists, screenwriters, and essayists.

The Fast Women books are for women of all ages and those who love them. Readers will fall in love, laugh, and even cry out loud, again and again and again.