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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. She is enrolled in the low residency program MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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), one of the country's largest and oldest writers-in-residence programs. Cathy served on the CPITS board from 2006-2010, with her second two years as president of the board. She now serves as a member of the CPITS Advisory Council.
She writes a humor blog, "Is It Just Me?" *Please keep in mind that "Is It Just Me" is not always appropriate for young people.
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