About
Bio
Barbara Ruth Saunders is a writer based in Berkeley, CA. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from scaffold, Cowboys & Indians, In Trust, Highland Park Poetry, and Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads (The Crown Publishing Group). She is a contributor to No-Regrets Remodeling: How to Create a Comfortable, Healthy Home That Saves Energy (Home Energy Magazine). She is the author of the middle-grade biography Ivan Pavlov: Exploring the Mysteries of Behavior (Enslow Publishers Inc.).
Saunders’ work has earned recognition from the Ina Coolbrith Society, the Bay Area Poets’ Coalition, and Cat Writers’ Association. She was awarded a Muse Medallion for photography. Saunders often features mythology and history in her writing. Her favorite writers are Charles Baudelaire, the New Journalists, Rod Serling, and Billy Wilder because of their dark humor and provocative use of language.
Saunders is currently working on a memoir about chasing her version of the American dream: following the Grateful Dead in the 1980s and 1990s.
When she’s not writing, Barbara enjoys cuddling with her dog, photographing wild birds, and working out to the strains of live Dead.
Reclaim the Creative Impulse
Writers can feel like outsiders in a world where creativity and self-expression play second fiddle to publishing and sharing stories.
It doesn’t have to be that way.
