Barbara Shoup
Agent: Andrea Cascardi

Barbara Shoup is the author of six novels including Night Watch, Wish You Were Here, Stranded in Harmony and Faithful Women and two non-fiction book co-authored with Margaret-Love Denman, Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in Mississippi Valley Review, Crazy Quilt, Louisville Review, The Journals of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Rhino, The New York Times Travel Section, The Writer, Voya and other magazines.

She served as the writer-in-residence at Broad Ripple High School Center for the Humanities for twenty years, and has been adjunct instructor of creative writing at Butler University as well as a teaching fellow with the university's Writer's Studio. Currently, she is the writer-in-residence at the Writer's Center of Indiana, where she directs "The Way Writers Write", a series of writing workshops for high school English teachers. She is also a contributing editor to the Chicago fiction magazine, Other Voices. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony, were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults.

More information can be found about Barbara
on her website www.barbarashoup.com
and her blog barbarashoup.blogspot.com

author photo by Freddi Stevens-Jacobi