I am very excited about the upcoming Appalachian Studies Association (ASA) Conference at Western Carolina University! I will be involved in a panel discussion, two poetry readings, and a performance of my multimedia presentation of “Queer in the Holler: An Appalachian Journey of Perseverance.”
I hope to see some old and new friends at some of my events, so don’t hesitate to come up and say “howdy.”
Barbara Marie Minney is a transgender woman, award-winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. She is a retired attorney and a seventh generation Appalachian. Now based in Tallmadge, Ohio, her first collection of poetry entitled “If There’s No Heaven” was the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and an Akron Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Book of 2020. Barbara is also the author of the "Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge (2021)," "Dance Naked with God (2023)," and "A Woman in Progress (2024)." Follow her at www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com.