"Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist.
Her deft storytelling makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom and love."

 

             —TARA BRACH, PH.D, author Radical Compassion

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"Barbara Graham is a literary alchemist.
Her deft storytelling makes the mystical believable and the human predicament shine with wit, wisdom and love."

—TARA BRACH, PH.D, author Radical Compassion

About the Author

Barbara Graham is an author, essayist, journalist and playwright. Her most recent book, Camp Paradox, is a haunting yet wry coming-of-age memoir. Barbara is also the author/editor of the New York Times bestselling Eye of My Heart: 27 Women Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother. Her work has appeared in national publications, including Time, National Geographic Traveler, O, The Oprah Magazine.

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Praise for Barbara's Work

“Barbara Graham is a rare talent who blends comic brilliance with psychological and spiritual insight. Her work plumbs the depths of the human heart while ingeniously tackling the hardest question: How to be wise in a crazy world?”

—Mark Matousek, bestselling author,
Sex, Death, Enlightenment

“Truth-telling with dollops of love.”

—O, The Oprah Magazine
[on Eye of My Heart] 

“Barbara Graham shares her journey from trauma to transcendence and reminds us that facing pain honestly transforms it into redemption.”

—Mary Pipher, Ph.D, #1 New York Times bestselling author,
Reviving Ophelia
[on Camp Paradox]

“Barbara Graham is the Fran Lebowitz of the New Age.”

—Dan Wakefield, bestselling author,
Going All the Way
[on Women Who Run with the Poodles]

“Barbara Graham writes with clarity, courage and heart. She shines light on complicated issues and brings the reader to a new understanding of what it means to be fully human.”

—Molly Giles, winner, Flannery O’Connor
Award for Short Fiction

“These stories are so fresh and fundamental, wrenching and joyful, that one is left feeling that the subject has never been cracked open before.”

—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author,
The Dance of Anger
[on Eye of My Heart]

 

Books & Collections by Barbara Graham