Barbara Meyer Link is an award-winning California  author and poet. She's the recipient of the Sacramento State University  Bazzanella Prize for fiction. Her 2010 memoir, Blue Shy, won first prize  in the Sacramento Friends of the Library First Chapter contest. She is  also the co-author of  "Coffee and Ink", a handbook for writing groups.  For fifteen years she shared her poetic gifts as a  teacher.

Her  debut novel  is "Chokecherry Girl". Set amid the racial tensions of  1950s Montana, It's  the story of three women drawn together by a stolen  car, an illicit love affair and a shooting.  New York Times bestselling  author Les Standiford says, “The characters and the place are palpable,  and Link’s laconic delivery is perfectly suited for the proceedings.  Sweet work, indeed.”