Tina Barry and Barbara Henning

Tina Barry is the author of Beautiful Raft (Big Table Publishing, 2019) and Mall Flower (Big Table Publishing, 2016). Tina’s work appears in numerous anthologies including The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2020 (spotlighted story), Nasty Women Poets, and A Constellation of Kisses. Her poetry and fiction appear in Rattle, Verse Daily, A-Minor, the Lascaux Review, The American Poetry Journal, and Yes, Poetry. Tina is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and has had several Best of the Net nods. She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Long Island University, Brooklyn. In addition to Writers.com, Tina is a teaching artist at The Poetry Barn.

Born in Detroit in 1948, Barbara Henning moved to New York City with her two children in 1983. After a few interim years in Tucson and Mysore, India, she returned to New York, presently living in Brooklyn. She is a poet who also writes prose—her most recent book is a hybrid biography of her mother, Ferne, a Detroit Story (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022), named a Michigan Notable Book of 2023; four novels, Just Like that (SD), Black Lace (SD), You Me and the Insects (SD), and Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVox); eight full length collections of poetry: Digigram (United Artists Books), A Day Like Today (Negative Capability), A Swift Passage (Quale), Cities & Memory (Chax), My Autobiography (United Artists), Detective Sentences (SD), Love Makes Thinking Dark (UA) and Smoking in the Twilight Bar (UA); and numerous chapbooks. Recently a cross country tour journal, Poets on the Road (with Maureen Owen) was published by City Point Press (2023). She is also the editor of The Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins (BV) and Looking Up Harryette Mullen (Belladonna).

Finally, Barb is the author of the text: Prompt Book: Experiments for Writing Poetry and Fiction (Spuyten Duyvil 2021). She is professor emerita at Long Island University in Brooklyn, and teaches for Writers.com.

For Barbara’s publications, see our welcome page, Barbara’s poets.org profile, and her website www.barbarehenning.com.