Poet & Teacher
Biography
Cathy Barber lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her husband. She has a Master of Arts degree from California State University, Hayward, now CSU, East Bay.
Her work has appeared in numerous print journals including The Dos Passos Review, Pearl, Silt Reader, and the Haight Ashbury Literary Review, in online journals such as Red Booth Review and Tattoo Highway, and in several anthologies, including An Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, which received the 2003 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award. Her poem “Last” won second place in Gin Bender’s 2003 poetry contest. Her poem "After Them" won second place in the 2006 S. Portia Steele Memorial Award for Excellence in Poetry contest.
She is a poet-teacher with California Poets in the Schools (CPITS) in San Mateo County. CPITS is the largest writers-in-residence program in the country and one of its oldest, celebrating forty-five years in 2009. Cathy served on the CPITS board from 2006-2010, with her second two years as president of the board. She is now a member of the Advisory Council and continues her teaching in San Mateo County.
Cathy is a member of the Plain Janes Publishing Poets Circle, an online writing group of women across the country, sponsored by Jane's Stories Press Foundation, a nonprofit that "encourages diversity among women writers and the inclusion of many voices in the publishing industry."
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