Barbara Booth became a Teacher Librarian when she had two small children to support. then a TESOL teacher and, finally, a freelance journalist for 27 years, published nationally in newspapers and magazines including The Melbourne Age, The Canberra Times, The West Australian, Qantas Club magazine, Home Beautiful, Paspaley magazine, Limelight magazine and 50 Something. She also wrote reviews of classical and jazz music, theatre and ballet for six years for the ArtsHub website. On May 25, 2021, as an author, she published a children's book called MY NAME IS PALOMA which is now widely distributed in Perth, Western Australia and on Amazon. She is based in Perth where she enjoy Scrabble, family and playing the Ukelele.