Barbara File Marangon

Barbara Marangon is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. She has an MFA in creative writing from the Southern New Hampshire University, and an MFA in dance from the University of Oklahoma where she received the Ballets Russes Fellowship and taught ballet. As a professional ballet dancer she performed in ballets, operas, musicals, and the circus. She toured the US with Ringling Bros.& Barnum and Bailey Circus and wrote about it in her memoir, Detour on an Elephant.

Barbara Marangon lived and taught ballet for nineteen years in Venice and the Veneto region in Italy. Her debut mystery/romance, The Body in the Malibran Theater, is the first book in a new series set in Venice. The novel won the Royal Palm Literary Award in the unpublished mystery category. You can learn more about the author at her website:

www.barbarafilemarangon. com