Author
Barbara P. Greenbaum
Now Available For Pre-Order
Go Out Like Sunday and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories featuring a cast of characters facing moments of decisive change. From a bullied boy in high school, to a couple shopping for coffins, the folks in this book face betrayal, loss, violence, grief, and yearning while
dancing with the joy of new directions.
A book of short stories.
Suzanne Strempek Shea
Author of Make a Wish But Not for Money
Such a rich and unforgettable collection of short stories, each sparked by the inescapable fact of death, painted powerfully by such a writer to follow forever. You’ll be rapt watching Greenbaum’s 3-D characters wrangle with all that can and does swirl around the end of a life, and you shouldn’t be surprised to find some version of yourself on these pages.
Stewart O’Nan
Author of Last Night at the Lobster House
and Emily, Alone
“Hope is a curse,” one of Barbara P. Greenbaum’s characters warns another, faced, like so many of her people, with a life-changing decision. As dire as their situations may be, the cast of Go Out Like Sunday find a way forward. As one says of her leap, “There’s more future here than there ever was there.”
Suzanne Strempek Shea
Author of Make a Wish But Not for Money
Such a rich and unforgettable collection of short stories, each sparked by the inescapable fact of death, painted powerfully by such a writer to follow forever. You’ll be rapt watching Greenbaum’s 3-D characters wrangle with all that can and does swirl around the end of a life, and you shouldn’t be surprised to find some version of yourself on these pages.
Stewart O’Nan
Author of Last Night at the Lobster House
and Emily, Alone
“Hope is a curse,” one of Barbara P. Greenbaum’s characters warns another, faced, like so many of her people, with a life-changing decision. As dire as their situations may be, the cast of Go Out Like Sunday find a way forward. As one says of her leap, “There’s more future here than there ever was there.”
Ann Hood
In these stories, Barbara P. Greenbaum has an uncanny ability to inhabit characters and their voices with pitch perfect accuracy. She moves from a high school student to a teacher to a murderous wife and more with equal grace and ease. Greenbaum is a natural born storyteller and this collection shows that off beautifully.
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A book of poems
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart, Apocalyptic Swing and Rocket Fantastic.
What a pleasure to get to spend time with Barbara P. Greenbaums moving debut, The Last Thing. In these poems the quotidien blooms into something close to transcendence through the force and care of Greenbaum's deep attention to the intimate moments that make up a life and our world. With their elegant lines and plainspoken clarity of vision, these poems open the door for their reader and then gesture towards a deeper reckoning. These are mature and surprising poems of a full life that brims with the excitement of a new and necessary poetic voice entering the world.
Featured Writings
I've done the best I can to provide you access to my stories when they are available online. Many are only available through back issues of print publications. The world is always changing and so are many of these websites.
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Dancing with Daddy
Jailbirds
Park and Ride
About the Author
Barbara P. Greenbaum has an MFA from the University of Southern Maine, Stonecoast.
She taught creative writing at Arts at the Capitol
Theater, a public magnet high school in Willimantic, Connecticut and served as an adjunct professor at Easter CT State University.
Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published in Arcturus, Clementine Unbound,
The Lascaux Review, The Louisville Review,
Main Street Rag, and The Massachusetts Review, among many others.
Her poetry book, The Last Thing, was published by Main Street Rag in 2022. Her short story collection, Go Out Like Sunday and Other Stories,
is available now for pre-order with Main Street Rag.
A long time New Englander, she now lives in Winston Salem, NC, with her little dog, Bean.
