Harvey, Flavia

Violeta Barrett has always written stories since she learned to write at the age of four. Subsequent to a forty-two year career in both the public and private sectors, Barrett, a Brooklyn transplant of Italian ancestry, moved from Canada to Ft. Myers, Florida, after her husband's death, where she resides today. She was encouraged to write a story on reinventing her life, which was published in an anthology of stories called "Beyond Coping." A Valentine letter she wrote on a whim won a prize and was published in her local newspaper. She began writing articles for a political newsletter soon aft...