Barbara has been delivering high-quality articles, marketing materials, and other writing products for over 15 years. Her experience, education, and enthusiasm for a wide range of subjects make her work a great addition to your magazine, newspaper, or book.

Contact Barbara to discuss your writing needs.

503.201.0980 or barbara@barbaraibond.com

Writing samples

Barbara's first book, 75 Scrambles in Oregon, best nontechnical ascents, was published in 2005 by The Mountaineers Books.

Book reviews

AIDS (pdf): review of AIDS & the Body Politic; AIDS, Drugs & Prevention, by Catherine Waldy Routledge for the Lambda Book Report, May 1997, Vol. 5, Issue 11.
The Bars in Our Minds (pdf): review of Women on the Row: Revelations from both sides of the bars, by Kathleen Shea for the Lesbian Review of Books, Vol.II, No.4 / Summer 2001.
Loading the Canon (pdf): review of Go the Way Your Blood Beats, an anthology of gay and lesbian fiction by African-American Writers, edited by Shawn Stewart Ruff and Henry Holt for the Lambda Book Report, November 1996, Vol. 5, Issue 5.

Newspaper and magazine articles

Smith Rock Scrambling: for DestinationNW Section, Sunday Oregonian, April 10, 2005.
The Snowshoe Fits Everyone: for DestinationNW Section, Sunday Oregonian, January 30, 2005.
Health Matters: What’s the status of lesbian health research? (pdf): for Deneuve, The Lesbian Magazine, April 1995, Vol 5, No.2.
A Talk with Dean Hamer, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health (pdf): for the NOGLSTP Bulletin (National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc.), 1994.
Gay & Lesbian Americans reaches beyond D.C., building membership electronically (pdf): for OutNow! April5, 1994.