Barbara Burford
(1946 - living) U.K.
Poet
Black poet, dramatist, and fiction writer whose best-known work to date is the collection of lesbian short stories, The Threshing Floor, which came out in 1986. Her poetry has been published in A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets (1985). She edited Dancing the Tightrope: New Love Poems by Women (1987), and her play Patterns was commissioned by Changing Women's Theatre and performed in 1984.
Source: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002
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