Barbara Crooker has had four poetry books pub- lished, including More and Line Dance, and her poems have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including The Bedford Introduction to Literature and Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking Penguin).

A Grammy Awards finalist and Pushcart Prize nomineee, she has had her work read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. Barbara has also won a wide variety of awards, including the Thomas Merton Poetry of the Sacred award and residencies in France and Ireland.