Stroked Poet: Thirteen is a Lucky Number

Twelve years ago, Barbara Huntington retired from her job of twenty years as the premedical advisor at San Diego State University, healthy and eager to travel and explore her joy of writing. Stories and poems followed in local and international publications, but then a stroke, COVID, breast cancer, and heart issues arrived in rapid succession just as she was starting her MFA in poetry. She has had poetry published in the Chachalaca Review, Ekphrastic Review, Serving House Journal, and poems and an essay online at Vox Populi, among others.  She has recently completed the first of a two-part memoir that includes essays and poems which she plans to send it out soon. (She has progressed slowly, but is still working on that MFA.)