Novelist and poet Barbara Quick is author ofVivaldi's Virgins, translated into 13 languages, made into an audiobook, and in development as a mini-series by Lotus Pictures. Her first novel, Northern Edge,was awarded the Discover: Great New Writers Prize. Her debut book of poems, The Light on Sifnos, won the 2020 Blue Light Press Poetry Prize. She returned to Italy to writeA Golden Web, which tells the tale of the pioneering teenage anatomist, Alessandra Giliani. Barbara's fourth novel, What Disappears (2022), is a multi-generational tale of ballerinas and Jewish history set in Belle poque Paris. An avid student of other languages, Barbara has traveled the world to do the research for her stories. She and her husband split their time between the Hudson River Valley and the Wine Country of Northern California.