What Was There All Along (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780692553695)

Barbara McCauley Cardona has had published 3 novels, 2 books of poetry, a memoir based on her sister's suicide, and 3 non-fiction titles. Previous publications have appeared under her first husband's name, Barbara Hughes, then her maiden name, Barbara McCauley, and now, having discovered a writer of Silhouette romances with the same name, under Barbara McCauley Cardona. An English major with extensive reading in French, German and Russian literature, the author received her BA degree in 1961. She has traveled widely, having spent one year teaching abroad and touring through Europe, as well as having lived on both US coasts, the upper Midwest and, now residing in New Mexico, she brings a non-parochial mind to her poetry and prose. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She is currently working on a new novel set in the Hispanic village where she now lives with her husband and where, together, they display their paintings in a gallery they have run for over 28 years.