Barbara Black

Barbara Black is an award-winning writer of fiction, flash fiction and poetry. Her first work of fiction, a short story collection titled Music from a Strange Planet, is published by Caitlin Press. Her work has been published in Canadian and international magazines including the 2020 Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology, The Cincinnati Review, The New Quarterly, The Los Angeles Review, CV2, Geist and Prairie Fire. She was a fiction finalist in the 2020 National Magazine Awards, nominated for the 2019 Writers' Trust/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and won the 2017 Writers' Union of Canada Short Fiction Award. She is currently working on a hybrid novel and a collection of flash fiction. She writes, motorcycles, travels and gardens in Victoria, BC, Canada. www.barbarablack.ca @barbarablackwriter @bblackwrites