Meet the Poet
L.L. Barkat
L.L. Barkat has served as a contributor to The Huffington Post and is a freelance writer for Edutopia. She's the author of six books for grown-ups, including Love, Etc: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss; an experimental fiction and poetry title, The Novelist: A Novella; and Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing (twice named a Best Book of 2011). Her children's titles include The Golden Dress: A Fairy Tale and A Is for Azure: The Alphabet in Colors. She has appeared at Best American Poetry, VQR, NPR, Every Day Poems, and Scratch Magazine. Former Staff Writer for The Curator and Managing Editor of Tweetspeak Poetry, Barkat can be found on LinkedIn. Read.