Barbara Simmons

Barbara Simmons is a graduate of Wellesley College, and received an MA in The Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University, as well as an MA in Educational Administration from Santa Clara University. She is a retired educator, teacher, and counselor who savors the details of life with her poetry writing, exploring words as ways to remember, envision, celebrate, mourn, and understand. Her poetry has appeared in journals like Boston Accent, Soul-Lit, Capsule Stories, Writing it Real, the Journal of Expressive Writing, and NewVerse News. Simmons grew up in Boston and now resides in California; both coasts inform her poetry.