Barbara SabolBarbara Sabol's writing is inspired by the landscape, from the mountains of western Pennsylvania where she was raised amidst the coal and steel country. She now lives in Akron, Ohio near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park whose trails she knows by heat.

Barbara was named co-Ohio Poet of the Year for her book, WATERMARK: Poems of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 (Alternating Current Press, 2023.) She writes both traditional long-form and short-form poetry. Her collected haiku is part of a combined book with Larry Smith titled Connections: Morning Dew: Tanka by Larry Smith and core & all: haiku and senryu (Bottom Dog Press, 2022.) Barbara's chapbook, Mapping the Borderlands: haibun and tanka prose, is forthcoming from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions. She is a retired speech therapist who lives with her bird carver husband and wonder dog.

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