by barbara link
the author
blue shy
Barbara Link received her MA in creative writing from Mills College in Oakland. Her powerful memoir, Blue Shy, was awarded first prize in the Sacramento Friends of the Library first chapter contest, and excerpts have been published in Kaleidoscope, American River Review and CORIL Newsletter (Central Oregon Resources for Independent Living). She is also a co-author of Coffee and Ink, a manual for writing groups. Her fiction 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 three of her short stories on Valley Writers Read. Barbara lives and writes in Sacramento, California.
