The Poet and the Poem
2022-23 Series

Featured Barbara Quick

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Novelist and poet Barbara Quick is best known as author of the 2007 novel Vivaldi's Virgins, still in print, translated into thirteen languages, made into an audiobook, and currently in development as a mini-series. Winner of the Discover: Great New Writers prize for her first novel, Northern Edge, Barbara was awarded the 2020 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize for her debut poetry chapbook, The Light on Sifnos. Barbara's fourth novel, What Disappears—over a decade in the making—will be launched by Regal House on May 17th. Five of Barbara's poems were recorded by Garrison Keillor and featured on The Writer's Almanac last year. She has been our featured guest three times before on "The Poet and the Poem." One of her poems has just been published as a full-page spread in the May 2022 issue of Scientific American. A trained dancer and avid organic gardener, Barbara is based on a small farm and vineyard in the California Wine Country with her husband Wayne Roden, a vigneron and long-time violist with the San Francisco Symphony. More at BarbaraQuick.com

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