Barbara Froman received early musical training at the Juilliard School’s preparatory division before studying voice with Delia Rigal, and earning degrees in music composition. As an undergraduate she studied voice with E. Leslie Bennett and Sherry Zannoth, piano with George King Driscoll, and composition with Karel Husa. As a graduate student, she worked with the composers M. Willliam Karlins, and Stephen L. Syverud, and studied with harpsichordist Dorothy Lane. As a writer, she placed in numerous Screenwriting competitions, and had both essays and poetry published before becoming the Director of Mundelein College’s Creative Writing Program. After leaving Mundelein, she taught Literature and Creative Writing at National-Louis University, and acted as a consultant to National’s graduate program in Written Communication. In 2011, her novel, Shadows and Ghosts received the Serving House Books/Fairleigh Dickinson University First Book Award in Prose, and was subsequently published by Serving House Books. In 2015, she was an Assistant Editor of (AFTER)life: Poems and Stories of the Dead, published by Purple Passion Press.

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