Barbara Bonfigli was born in California and thriving there until, at age fifteen, she discovered that her high school gave full college credit for Driver’s Education. She successfully lobbied her parents to switch her to a prep school back east that leaned more toward philosophy, literature, and European history.

Her early careers in Manhattan included editor, literary agent, and Wall Street coffee vendor. Working with composer Catherine MacDonald, she wrote lyrics for shows on and off-Broadway, including A Streetcar Named Desire at the Vivian Beaumont and St. James theaters, She Stoops to Conquer at the Guthrie, and Rebel Women at Joseph Papp’s Shakespeare Festival.

While living in London in the 1980s and ’90s, she co-founded ShowPeople Ltd, which produced Blues in the Night, Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, Barbara Cook: Wait ’Til You See Her, and several seasons of big and little shows. Blues… and Barbara Cook… both received Olivier nominations, the UK’s equivalent of the Tony Awards.

Barbara Bonfigli has studied music in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and meditation in India with her gurus’. She deepens her yoga practice in New Mexico with Tias Little and the teachers at Yoga Source.

She now lives on a small Greek island and the islands of Manhattan and Santa Fe. The author donates a portion of her royalties to the Dodecanese Animal Protection Society. She can be found at www.barbarabonfigli.com.