Barbara O'Connor, author of Goodbye, Paris Nash, and Enlightening Elizabeth Moss is a native of San Antonio, Texas, whose love of the city and state is obvious in the pages of her novels. Goodbye, Paris Nash won the prestigious BRAG Medallion for outstanding fiction.In Goodbye Paris Nash, O'Connor focused upon the difference people can make in the lives of those they meet. The bittersweet tale explores the friendship formed between terminally ill Paris Nash and television reporter Siobhan O'Shaunessy, and uses the Alamo City Livestock Show as its backdrop.Enlightening Elizabeth Moss is a more personal story, and deals with two parents, Eli Moss who has graduated to visiting her son's grave two times each year, and Harold Kaderli who can't stop going to the cemetery to sit at his daughter's grave. The two strangers meet and discover they have much more in common than their grief.Her main characters are strong women who face change and adversity with creativity, integrity, and a determined spirit.O'Connor is a member of River City Writers, The Texas Writer's League, the San Antonio Writer's Guild, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

O'Connor now lives in New Braunfels, Texas, with her husband Philip and their two fur-girls.