Barbara Shoup

Barbara Shoup is the author of six novels and co-author of two books about the creative process. Her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times Travel Section.  Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Arts Council, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and the 2006 PEN Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship.  Shoup taught creative writing at Broad Ripple High School Center for the Humanities and the Performing Arts for twenty years and is a regular visitor to high school classrooms around the state of Indiana.  Currently, she is the Executive Director for the Writers’ Center of Indiana, an associate faculty member at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, and an associate editor with OV Books.  Her most recent novel, Everything You Want, was published in 2008. A second edition of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2009.