About Barbara Gabriel

Barbara Gabriel is a Austin, Texas-based writer and traveler who has been gathering writing material for fifty years while impersonating a chef, cruise director, ice cream scooper, sailor, child advocate, landscaper, package designer, dive master, log cabin builder, and a really bad waitress. She grew up in Minnesota along Highway 61, ran away to sea in her late 20s, and has traveled, lived and eaten in North and South America, Turkey, North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. Barbara writes about travel and life on her site http://stealjustoneday.com Her poetry has been published in Poetry24, Wild Goose Poetry Review and in the anthology American Society: What Poets See (FutureCycle Press).