Bio:Anita M. Barnard

Anita Barnard has coedited three poetry anthologies, most recently Above Us Only Sky, as Incarnate Muse Press and edited the anthology Sense of Touch (Entangled Muse). Her poetry has appeared in The Lucid Stone, the Hawai'i Review and many other small journals. She was a finalist in New Millennium Writings 18th Consecutive Contest. She has poems forthcoming in Ilya's Honey. Anita is also a visual artist, working in glass, cement, paint, mosaic and collage. Two of her collages were recently shown in Bremen, Germany and are traveling to New Zealand where they will appear in three gallery shows later this year. She lives in Fort Worth with 2 of her 4 children and many cats and spends weekends tending her rural land in NE Texas where she hopes to someday have a retreat for writers and artists. Her still-evolving website is http://www.13moonsgrove.com.