Cathy Barber’s poetry has been published on four continents and has been anthologized many times, including in the anthologies Rewilding: Poems for the Environment and Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. Her work has been nominated for a Best of the Net. Her abecedarian chapbook is Aardvarks, Bloodhounds, Catfish, Dingoes (Dancing Girl Press, 2018) and her first full length book is Once: A Golden Shovel Collection (Kelsay Books, 2023). She taught for many years with California Poets in the Schools. She is a graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program, and makes her home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where she serves on the board of Literary Cleveland.