Barbara Grenfell Fairhead is an artist, writer, poet and lyricist. She was born in the United Kingdom in 1939 and has lived most of her life in South Africa. After her first visit to New Mexico in the late 1980s it became her second home. She made many extended visits over a period of twenty years, staying in her casita close to the Black Mesa. Many of her poems and haiku were inspired by that landscape, as well as some of her prose writings, and her trilogy of novels. She lives in Cape Town now.

Publications

And Now You Have Leapt Up to Swallow the Sun, Tortuga Publishing Company, 1997
A Trilogy: Of Death and Beauty, Sunstone Press: Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2013
Whereof One Cannot Speak, Sunstone Press, 2017
The Coming Guest, Sunstone Press, 2020
Raven’s Moon, Illustrated by Gillian Matthews 2001
The Love Sheet, with Jacques Coetzee, Hands-On Books, 2018
Rio Abajo Rio – A Post-Creation Myth, Hands-On Books, 2021
Kin: a book of collected poems and writings, Hands-On Books, 2022
Messenger: A book of poetry, Hands-On Books, 2023
The River People, Hands-On Books, 2024