Barbara E. Haley

Barbara E. Haley, a retired elementary teacher and Reading Interventionist, lives in Universal City, Texas, where she enjoys writing, editing, tutoring, and spending time with her wonderful grandchildren.

Barbara has been writing stories since she was a child. At the age of eight, she began creating storybooks on discarded keypunch cards tied together with yarn.

In 1997, Barbara began seriously pursuing the craft of writing. She attended writing conferences, enrolled in online writing courses, studied dozens of how-to books, and carefully analyzed the books she read for pleasure. Since then, she has written nine books, both nonfiction and fiction. Barbara loves to help other authors with their books with her writing, editing, and formatting services. She’s worked on over a dozen such books, many for missionaries and pastors.

Barbara’s passion in writing is to help readers discover the tremendous freedom found in living without masks—intentionally choosing to deal head-on with lies and misconceptions from the past and replace them reshaped thoughts and values based only on truth. Specifically, the truth of God’s Word.

Barbara’s fiction series "A Second Wind" features a colorful cast of middle-aged women who evaluate their lives and determine what they want for their second half of life. The main character, Biz McNeely, will keep you in stitches, and as Nancy Rue said, “You will either see yourself in Biz or wish she lived next door.”

Barbara’s nonfiction "Lord, Get Your Needle—I’m Falling Apart at the Seams" (The Emotional Strain of Chronic Pain) offers understanding and hope while tackling the tough issues of pain, depression, and loneliness. With tender honesty, the book addresses the search for balance between faith and the natural feelings of anger, despair, and condemnation which often accompany chronic pain or any sort of grief.

Whether through fiction—via wacky but poignant character journeys, or through non-fiction—via Bible study, devotion, blog, or teaching, Barbara prays her writing encourages you and equips you to search for God’s truth as you Face the Facts in a World of Fiction.