Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith is a native of Armagh and currently lives in Drogheda, County Louth. She has been writing poetry for a number of years now. She has privately published two volumes of poetry and regularly performs public recitals of her work. In parallel to her interest in "all things poetic", Barbara has also been involved in amateur dramatics, various writing groups and worked with the Irish Mental Health Association in the organisation of a short story competition.
Barbara has published poetry in Riposte, VirtualWriter and Electric Acorn in Ireland, as well as in nthposition.com, Sentinel Poetry (online) and The Coffee House (UK), Garm Lu (Canada), Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and Portrait (US) and TMR (India). Her essays have appeared in west47 online and VirtualWriter and her publications include Poetic Stage (1998) and Gnosis (1996). Kairos is Barbara's first publication from DOGHOUSE