About the Author

Barbara Hantman is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, with a Master’s Degree in the Teaching of English from Teachers College, Columbia University.

She is Fresh Meadows Poets' Corresponding Secretary, and a monthly featured reader and lecturer at the New York Poetry Forum.

Barbara has served a generation of NYC high school students, and is proud that her seven full-length books of verse attest to her ability to versify in Spanish and Hebrew, as well as the beloved English tongue.