Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum
Biography
Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum
Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum's professional writing career began in her senior year at the University of Hartford, when she published a scholarly paper on the work of Doris Lessing. After graduating Summa Cum Laude, she became the assistant editor of a scholarly journal published by that school's English Department. In short order she was asked to produce, write and host a local cable television program she named "Literary Perspectives." By the time she had finished that project, she landed a job with the Farmington Valley Herald newspaper and started to sell her work on the freelance market.
Over the years, Barbara has taught a variety of writing classes, public speaking workshops, literature seminars and, for more than 15 years, facilitated book discussion groups for adults. Her work with children inspired her to create a reading enrichment program for kindergartners up through sixth graders. Barbara is a voracious reader whose tastes run to contemporary literary fiction and mystery/suspense/thrillers. She is also a film buff and loves to play word games of every sort.
Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum
