Fanny Barry

A cancer diagnosis morphed Fanny Barry from a science and engineering writer to creative writing and fiction. Her first creative work was a series of illustrated emotional support booklets called, I Wish I Knew, Notes from a Breast Cancer Survivor, published 2006.

After Cancer treatments, Fanny systematically moved down the eastern US coast. She stopped at the edge of the Mexican Caribbean believing she'd found the place to die. Instead, she built a non-profit to help women in treatment who came to the rustic bungalows she built for rest and recuperation. During these years she wrote, Map of Life and Beauty, her memoir. It tells the captivating story of how she rebuilt her life in Tulum, Mexico well before it was the hipster haven it is today.

The Eco-Woman trilogy: Transformation, Initiation and Resolution tell the spellbinding fantasy story of Maeve, an engineer who receives superpowers after a near deadly accident when 3 Celtic Light Women from the northern forest rescue her. They give her a mission to use those powers to save the world, one adventure at a time. Eco Woman's adventures bring you into the struggle between the Lights and the Shadows and a place where we all have super powers.

While coordinating creative projects, Fanny teaches yoga and runs retreats at her studio Tribal Tulum in Tulum, Mexico. She frequently returns to the Northeastern US for inspiration and connection to her northern ancestors.

Hear all about her and other everyday heroes on the Podcast, Nobody’s Nobody. We highlight amazing everyday heroes while talking about how each of us can make the world a better place, find our own super powers and relate to how Eco Woman, inspires us to do so. Check her out on Apple or Spotify.