Barbara Marie Minney is an award-winning transgender poet and writer, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. She is the author of four poetry collections: If There’s No Heaven, the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and an Akron Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Book in 2020; the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge (2021); Dance Naked With God (2023); and A Woman in Progress (winner of the 2024 American Fiction Award for Poetry Chapbook, an Eric Hoffer DaVinci Eye Award Finalist, and a San Francisco Book Festival Runner-Up).
