Barbara Schoichet

Barbara Schoichet has a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University in England, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She has taught Creative Writing at Stephens College, Santa Fe Community College, Denver University, and one year abroad in England.
Barbara’s memoir, Don’t Think Twice: Adventure and Healing at 100 Miles Per Hour was published September 6, 2016 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Her previous publications include a nonfiction book entitled The New Single Woman: Discovering a Life of Her Own (Contemporary Books) and two children’s books for Price, Stern, Sloan’s Amazing Maze series. Her short stories have appeared in Westword, Permafrost, the Sarah Lawrence Literary Review, and MSS, a literary magazine founded by John Gardner.
While completing her PhD in England, she delivered an academic paper entitled: Why Write? Finding Truth or Writing Lies at the 2010 Great Writers Conference in Bangor, Wales. She also published a book review in the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies entitled: “Roads of Her Own: Gendered Space and Mobility in American Women’s Road Narratives.” Her PhD dissertation, Uniting the Split Protagonist, is now bound and available in the Lancaster University library.