Barbara Marie Minney, a seventh generation Appalachian, is a transgender woman, award-winning poet, writer, and quiet activist. Barbara’s first collection of poetry, If There’s No Heaven, was the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and was selected by the Akron Beacon Journal as a Best Northeast Ohio Book in 2020.
Barbara Marie Minney, a seventh generation Appalachian, is a transgender woman, award-winning poet, writer, and quiet activist. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and publications, including “Breaking the Silence: An Anthology of Queer Self, Life, and Love in NE Ohio," “The Buckeye Flame,” and “Politico.” Barbara’s first collection of poetry, If There’s No Heaven, was the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and was selected by the Akron Beacon Journal as a Best Northeast Ohio Book in 2020. She is also the author of the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge. Barbara is a retired attorney and lives in Tallmadge, Ohio, with her wife of 41 years and a menagerie of stuffed animals. You can find Barbara online at https://www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com and on Instagram and Facebook.
