Barbara Knott

Award-winning poet and fiction writer Barbara Knott says of her work: I am interested in the world and its diversity of creatures, in what makes us human, and in whatever lies in the depths of human experience, where oppositions lay down their arms, where the erotic meets the sacred, and where serious sits down with humor to sort it all out.

My goal as a writer is to bring the reader into an ongoing conversation about what speaks to my imagination, which is presently focused on our human need to revitalize our connection to the more-than-human world and to the values of creativity, compassion, and harmony with ourselves, with each other, and with the world we live in, each of us an ark that carries creation toward renewal. The image of the ark allows me to think and feel the presence of nature and my role in nurturing the mother/father of us all, so that we do not allow species (including our own) casually to disappear. We can, each in our own way, create a clarion call for consciousness by offering up a cup full of our own awareness, fully embodied soul from the depths of a strong heart and mind.

Barbara has a Ph.D from New York University's drama therapy program. While in New York, she studied acting with William Hickey at the Herbert Berghof Studio in Greenwich Village and did extensive work in theater and in Montessori education for pre-schoolers. On her return to Atlanta, Georgia, she became co-director of the Center for Archetypal Studies and served terms as program chair and then president of the C. G. Jung Society while practicing therapy for five years before entering a fulltime teaching career in English and humanities. Now retired, she gives full attention to writing and collaborative arts performances and to editing and publishing The Grapevine Art and Soul Salon, an online literary/art journal at www.barbaraknott.net.