Barbara Harris Leonhard’s poetry is curated in various literary magazines and anthologies. Barbara’s poetry has received awards and honors from Well-Versed 2021 and Spillwords Press. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Trending Poets named her Poet of the Year in 2023 and 2024. Some of her poems have been translated into Italian, Albanian, and Chinese. Barbara is the editor for MasticadoresUSA and her literary journal, FEED THE HOLY. She is co-editor for Poetry Bookshelf on LatinosUSA – English Edition.
She’s written a best-selling poetry collection Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (Experiments in Fiction, 2022), which is about her relationship with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. In 2024, Barbara and Nolcha Fox launched a book of poetry collaborations, Too Much Fun to Be Legal, with The Garden of Neuro Institute. The poems are light-hearted views of grief, aging, loss, death, and life happenstance. Her new poetry collection, The Lost Book of Zeroth, with Alien Buddha Press in 2025, is a satirical speculative collection of poems and flash fiction about humanoid AI robots suffering the human condition and creating chaos. Even some of their efforts to do good deeds are scams. This book also contains a chapter of social commentary poems by I, Human.
She lives in Mid-Missouri with her husband. You can follow her on her blog: Extraordinary Sunshine Weaver. If you enjoy her blog and other endeavors, consider supporting her on Buy Me a Coffee. This site also has a shop, where you can order my books. Your support is greatly appreciated.
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