Barbara Sabol is the author of seven books, most recently Mapping the Borderlands (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025). She was named the 2024 Ohio Poet of the Year for her book, WATERMARK: Poems of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Barbara won the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions poetry contest in 2019 for her book, Imagine a Town.
Barbara Sabol is the author of seven books, most recently Mapping the Borderlands (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025). She was named the 2024 Ohio Poet of the Year for her book, WATERMARK: Poems of the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889. Barbara won the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions poetry contest in 2019 for her book, Imagine a Town. Her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council. Barbara is a retired speech pathologist who lives in Akron, Ohio, close to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park whose trails she knows by heart.
