For many years Barbara Pelman has taught English at high school and college, primarily in B.C. Born in Vancouver, she has degrees from the University of British Columbia and the University of Toronto. She has been an active participant in the Victoria writing community: as a member of the Random Acts of Poetry team, a regular reader at Planet Earth Poetry, and the instigator of Victoria's "Poetry Walls," created by her students, in the downtown core.

"Barbara Pelman uncovers beauty in all that is broken, lost and forlorn. Here are poems of straightforward clarity and sure control that capture the music of what it means to have loved and lost loved ones, to let go and yet find peace and beuty in the daily living of life." -- Pamela Porter, Governor General Award-winner for the verse novel The Crazy Man