Barbara Clarke

Barbara Clarke has received many labels through the years, some unwanted: ”Best Body” in the ninth grade and ex-wife twice. In mid-life she worked in Kenya, later as an executive, and moved over 60 times. A mailperson told her that she held the local record for the most forwarding labels of someone not fleeing the law—three. And most recently she was given one she treasures—earned in a class developing The Red Kitchen—“Most likely to start a forgiveness movement.” You can find out more about her varied career as a writer and read her blog at www.barbaraclarke.net.

Barbara has also written extensively for corporate clients, trade magazines, worked under a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, non-profit organizations as a grant writer, and for local and alternative newspapers on a variety of topics. In 2009 she published Getting to Home: Sojourn in a Perfect House, a memoir about the process of building a house as a single woman.