Barbara Link

Barbara Link received her MA in creative writing from Mills College in Oakland. Her powerful memoir, Blue Shy, was awarded first prize the Sacramento Friends of the Library Contest, and excerpts have been published in Kaleidoscope and American River Review. She is also a co-author of Coffee and Ink, a manual for writing groups. Her fictions and poetry have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and in 2008 she received the Bazzanella Prize at Sacramento State University for graduate fiction. KVPR, a National Public Radio affiliate, has aired four of her short stories on Valley Writers Read. Barbara lives and writes in Sacramento, California.