B. A. Quinn
Meet Our Staff
Managing Editor & Publisher
Barbara A. Quinn is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx, and raised on Long Island and in Westchester. She lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for three years and currently resides in Rockland County, NY with her husband and son.
A diehard Yankees fan, she loves to travel and
has taken her Yankees cap to 47 states, plus many countries. When she was 19 she
hitched across Europe with a backpack. The following summer she visited Mexico.
She owned a motorcycle for a time, and a pink suede biker jacket.
For ten years she practiced law. She was a Town Attorney and Asst. County Attorney and spent time in private practice, writing everything from zoning ordinances to manure pile rules. Before that, she worked at many jobs including process sever, lingerie sales clerk, cocktail waitress and postal worker.
Her short stories have won contests and awards from Writer's Digest and The National Writers Club and her work has been published in small magazines and online. She's been a journalist and held several reporting and editing jobs, including the position of Features Editor at Strictly Scarsdale, and reporter for The Scarsdale Inquirer.
She has written four novels. Her novel Hardhead,
was published by XLibris. Visit www.xlibris.com/Hardhead.html
to see a sample chapter. She is, as always, at work on another novel.
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