Born in Trinidad and raised in India, Greece, the U.S. and Israel, Barbara came to Canada when she was eighteen. After receiving a BFA in creative writing at UBC, she moved to northern Alberta. Once a librarian, then a health promoter and then a columnist on seniors’ health issues, she now is a writer, an editor and a teacher of ESL and Adult Literacy. Besides poems, she has written short stories, a radio play, essays and articles. Her work has been published throughout Canada and in the U.S. Her book of poetry The Man with the Dancing Monkey was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. (Write to Barbara if you would like to buy a copy of this book.)
Her current writing projects are The Pancreas Replies (poetry), Did I Tell You the Story of Clara? (children’s biography) and The Drawing of Maria (novel).
Awards
Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award 1998 for The Man with the
Dancing Monkey
Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award 1998 for The Man with the Dancing
Monkey
A winner of the CBC Alberta Write for Radio Award 1992 for Bird on a
Branch (a radio play that was broadcast on CBC Stereo)
Selected Publications
The Man with the Dancing Monkey (Wolsak and Wynn, 1997). ISBN: 0-919897-54-1
Books in Print
Mulcahy, Barbara Curry
The Man With the Dancing Monkey. Wolsak and Wynn, 1997. ISBN: 0-919897-54-1.
Barbara Curry Mulcahy, Box 136, North Star AB T0H 2T0
bcmulcahy@hotmail.com
