Typewriter Talks with Keep St. Pete Lit is an online series where they interview and showcase literary works by Tampa Bay writers.

Barbara Riddle was born and raised in New York’s Greenwich Village. She currently divides her time between downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, and rural Maine, after raising her LA-based filmmaker daughter in San Francisco. Barbara has worked as a dog-walker, artist’s model and biochemist (Ph.D., Brandeis University) but prefers writing fiction above all. She is currently Guest Fiction Editor of the journal Please See Me, devoted to improving communication between health care providers and patients through fiction, poetry and nonfiction narratives that connect us as humans in all our glorious diversity. Her coming-of age novel The Girl Pretending to Read Rilke was named one of the Best Indie Debut Novels of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews.
She would say her twin passions are creating empathy and smashing stereotypes—using perfect, carefully chosen words.