BARBARA BLATNER’s plays have been produced across the United States and internationally.  Her verse play No Star Shines Sharper, published by Baker’s Plays, aired repeatedly on Christmas night on NPR stations and was acquired by the Museum of TV and Radio. The award-winning Years of Sky was produced by Scripts Up! at 59E59 Theatres; Secret Places was produced by New Circle Theatre Company.  Jane, Queen’s Foole placed second in the Julie Harris Contest, was Finalist in the Judith Royer Contest and part of Centenary Stage’s Women Playwrights Series. Barbara has composed music for the Renaissance fusion band Urban Myth, and for short plays and operas. New York Quarterly Books published two poetry collections, The Still Position (2010) and Living with You (2012). Poetry and reviews have appeared in Beloved on this Earth, Heliotrope, House Organ, Poetry Northwest, The New York Quarterly, Lift, Apalachee Quarterly, 13th Moon, and others.