When It's Over

Barbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for most of her adult life. After a successful career as a nurse practitioner, she is now focused on creative writing. Her debut novel, When It’s Over, (She Writes Press, 2017,) set in Europe during WWII, is based on the story of her mother's escape from the Holocaust, and won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in historical fiction. Her work has also appeared in The Forge Literary Magazine, Ars Medica, The Copperfield Review, Blood and Thunder and Stoneboat, among other places. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she loves to hike and cook fresh locally-grown food.