Writer, publisher, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, and Wild-Eyed Visionary for Mercury Retrograde Press. Books edited by Barbara have been featured in Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, The Midwest Book Review, SciFiDimensions, Fantasy Book Critic, American Freethought, Baby Got Books, SFScope, SFSignal, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, January Magazine and Green Man Review. She has been featured in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and on Baby Got Books and SF Signal, and has appeared at The Atlanta Book Show, RavenCon, Faerie Escape: Atlanta and Opus Fest.
For the past 23 years Barbara has been married to her one true love, one of the very first Cold-War-era Soviet émigrés. Together they have ridden the roller coasters of multiple start-up businesses (his and hers) and the raising of two children. Current projects include a garden entirely bereft of nutritional value, a competition to determine who is a bigger geek, and a search for the perfect bottle of champagne.
Born in Chicago, at various times in her life Barbara has called Philadelphia, Houston, New Jersey, and Atlanta home. She currently lives in a place called Lost Forest, in a house that is bigger on the inside than the outside, with her husband, her daughter, and two high-maintenance cats.
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