Barbara Sosman has an MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Vermont College, as well as a BA in English from the University of Connecticut. Her short story "Juggling" won FIRST PRIZE in the 2004 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest sponsored by Humboldt State University and is being published in the spring 2005 issue of Toyon. Her short story "Ashes" was published in the spring 2003 Louisville Review, and another short story, "Me and Grace," was a prizewinner in the 2003 Fiction Competition sponsored by The Ledge, and published in The Ledge #27.

She has been adjunct professor of English at Western Connecticut State University and is Contributing Editor to the literary journal Hunger Mountain. She has been a teacher, journalist, and writer and editor for numerous textbook programs for Harcourt, Harper & Row, MacMillan, Scott Foresman and others; she also was Senior Editor in language arts for Noble and Noble, the textbook publishing arm of Dell Publishing.  She lives in Bangor, Maine and teaches English at Eastern Maine Community College where she is working on a memoir.