Barbara Simmons is a Wellesley College and The Writing Seminars (Johns Hopkins) alumna, a retired educator who writes to wonder and hope. Publications include NewVerse News, DoubleSpeak, Soul-Lit, Capsule Stories, Journal of Expressive Writing, Writing it Real, All Your Poems. Her book, Offertories: Exclamations and Disequilibriums, was published in 2022.