Barbara Swift Brauer is a freelance writer living in San Geronimo, California. She has been a member of Sixteen Rivers Press poetry collective since 2011. Barbara's poems have appeared nationally in journals and anthologies as well as art exhibitions and installations. Her first poetry collection, AT EASE IN THE BORROWED WORLD, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2013 and RAIN, LIKE A THIEF in 2019. With portrait artist Jackie Kirk, she is coauthor of the nonfiction book, Witness: The Artist's Vision in "The Face of AIDS" (Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996).

Books by Barbara Swift Brauer:

Other poems on the web by Barbara Swift Brauer:
Five poems
Two poems

About Rain, Like a Thief:

"Every poem takes you along on a journey and brings you safely home. This is a book you must have. You will want to read it again and again."
—Gail Entrekin

"In RAIN, LIKE A THIEF, Barbara Swift Brauer looks directly at loss and aging with compassion, grace, and even humor. She's a poet of wonderful transparency and economy, and evokes the delights of ordinary life as well as the passage of time. Brauer speaks to us in a clear, intimate voice: we seem to be listening to wise friend who is telling the truth."
—Ellery Akers