Barbara Carole, a former Fulbright scholar and graduate of the University of Wisconsin, lived in Paris for several years as a translator and editor at the Paris Review before returning to the USA to teach French and French literature at the UCLA. Three years later, she became a writer and researcher for the undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau. She has worked in advertising and marketing as a writer and her writing has also appeared in The Paris Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Issaquah Press, The French Review, FM Magazine, and elsewhere. Barbara lives near her children and grandchildren with her husband and pets on a forested mountain near Seattle.