Barbara Conrad, Dr. phil

Barbara Conrad is author of two previous poetry collections, Wild Plums (FutureCycle Press) and The Gravity of Color (Main Street Rag), and editor of Waiting for Soup (MSR), an anthology from her creative writing classes with homeless folks in Charlotte. Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Atlanta Review, Nine Mile, Broad River, Pembroke, Southern Women's Review, and such anthologies as Kakalak, Jacar Press and Southern Poetry Anthology. In 2015 she was a three-time finalist for the...See more

Barbara Conrad is author of two previous poetry collections, Wild Plums (FutureCycle Press) and The Gravity of Color (Main Street Rag), and editor of Waiting for Soup (MSR), an anthology from her creative writing classes with homeless folks in Charlotte. Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Atlanta Review, Nine Mile, Broad River, Pembroke, Southern Women's Review, and such anthologies as Kakalak, Jacar Press and Southern Poetry Anthology. In 2015 she was a three-time finalist for the James Applewhite Prize (NC Literary Review). She continues to work with the homeless while focusing on racial and economic social justice issues. See less