Holes in Space: A poetry collection - Softcover

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Award-winning novelist and poet Andrea Barbosa is an avid reader, soccer fanatic, and a tourist at heart who studied Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. When not writing or working her full-time job, she travels in search of history, museums, and tourist attractions. She has published three novels and a poetry collection, and her short stories have appeared in several anthologies and in the Southern Pacific Review. Her poetry collection, Holes in Space, won the 2015 Reader's Favorite Silver Medal and her flash fiction piece, The Queen of Carnival, won the 2016 Spider's Web Prize from Spider Road Press. She has earned other accolades in flash fiction and mystery. Her work has been influenced by contemporary authors Paulo Coelho, Fernando Sabino, Sylvia Plath, Erica Jong and Joyce Carol Oates, among others.She currently serves as VP and Press Director for the Houston Writers Guild and also writes award-winning romance under Andrya Bailey. She has been as a guest speaker at Houston Writers Guild's writing conferences and workshops, Houston Baptist University's Writers Conference, Lone Star College's Bayou City Book Festival, and is a regular guest author at Comicpalooza's (Texas' largest pop culture event) Literary Track. Awards: 2015 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Award - Poetry: Holes in Space - A Poetry Collection 2015 Honorable Mention Award - Spider's Web Flash Fiction Contest from Spider Road Press for "Because the Sky is Blue" 2015 Honorable Mention Award - Houston Writers Guild Contest from Houston Writers Guild Press' Mystery Short Stories. 2016 First Place Award - Spider's Web Flash Fiction Contest from Spider Road Press for "The Queen of Carnival" For more of her writing, follow her: Blog: massiveblackholenovel.blogspot.com/ Follow her on twitter - @andyb0810