Barbara Ehrentreu grew up in Brooklyn and moved to Queens. She has lived and taught in Long Island, Buffalo, NY and Westchester, NY as well as a year in Los Angeles, CA. She has a Masters Degree in Reading and Writing K-12. She currently is retired from teaching but she tutors and is living in Stamford, CT with her family. If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor,(Soon to be back in print) inspired by Paula Danziger for her children's writing workshop at Manhattanville College, won second prize in Preditors & Editors as Best Young Adult Book for 2011. Her second book, After, considers what can happen to a teen when her father becomes ill with a heart attack. It is based on her own experiences when her husband had a heart attack and the aftermath of what she and her family experienced. The sequel to If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor titled, “Who Is Jennifer Taylor?” is currently at her publisher and she is almost finished writing the last book of this series: The Mill Valley High series. Barbara has a poetry book, You’ll Probably Forget Me: Living With and Without Hal, which won Honorable Mention in the NLAPW (National League of American Pen Women) Vinnie Ream contest for 2017 and several of her poems are published in the anthologies: What the World Needs Now Is Poems Sweet Poems, ;Crossroads: A Poet’s Life Journey, Poets To Come: Walt Whitman Bicentennial Anthology for 2019, “Queen”, World Poetry Open Mic 2016 and 2017, Prompted: An International Collection of Poetry, Beyond the Dark Room, Storm Cycle and Backlit Barbell. In addition, her short screenplay for “The Kiss” won 1st Prize for a Romantic short screenplay at Indie Gathering, and was nominated for Best Dialogue in a Short at Action on Film. She has received several awards from Motivational Strips including: the Indian Independence Day Honor from Gujarat Shaitya Academy on August 15, 2020 and 2021 and Motivational Strips, Premio Mudial A La Excelencia Literaria 2019-2020, The Order of Shakespeare Medal. From Khazakhstan she received World Poetic Star, August 23, 2019. She has a blog, Barbara's Meanderings, and hosts a radio show on Blog Talk Radio, Books and Entertainment Tales from the Pages, once a month. On Facebook she is a member of several poetry groups, including: The Garden of Poetry and Prose, WPOM Poets and Friends, and Poets Attic. She belongs to Greenwich Pen Women Letters and SCBWI.