Barbara Worton is the author of Chatterbox: Stories from a Noisy Life, Bedtime Stories: The Short, Long and Tall Tales of a Sleepwriter and  Too Tall Alice. She co-authored If I’m Talking, Why Aren’t You Listening? with Linda Dini Jenkins and The Adventures of The Baker’s Daughter with Rochelle Udell. Her stories have appeared in Memories of John Lennon, The Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, Ovunque Siamo, The Paterson Literary Review, Italian American/University of Illinois Press, VIA: Voices in Italian Americana and Platform Review. She has also written for women’s magazines and business publications, was an Associate Producer on the award-winning independent film Surviving on LES and is a member of the Italian American Writers Association.